evidentiary-error

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5898 Jeremiah Bobb v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP child-witness constitutional-rights evidentiary-error ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strategic-decision A child-witness's initial interview with the authorities was recorded and the child un-equivocally stated that the Petitioner did not sexually assault…
20-6494 Jose Andres Vera-Gutierrez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-error harmless-error witness-credibility Whether erroneously admitted evidence critical to proving an element of the charged offense can be deemed harmless based on the appellate court's dete…
19-8389 Edward Yarbrough, Jr. v. J. Sullivan, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-error federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure plain-error prosecutorial-misconduct remarks-authentication reversible-error trial-court Whether a prosecutor's uninvited inflammatory remarks made in summation, absent a timely explicit curative instruction, so infected the trial with unf…
19-5948 Maria Margarita Valdez-Araiza v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review conflicting-evidence criminal-procedure-review evidence evidentiary-error harmless-error harmless-error-review judicial-precedent jury-factfinding sixth-amendment standard-of-review witness-credibility Is the Ninth Circuit's decision consistent with this Court's precedents?
18-7634 Lincoln E. Fox v. Neil Turner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-error fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel victim-testimony witness-testimony Whether the trial court's admission of a videotaped statement of the victim violated the defendant's right to a fair trial
18-798 Joanna Joy Blauch v. Colorado Colorado 2018-12-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-error evidentiary-standards exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington waiver-of-rights Does ruling the substantive nature of materially relevant documentary evidence with apparent exculpatory value effected non-existent, without applying…