evidentiary-errors

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Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Flags	Tags	Question Presented
22-7784	Demarcus Donte Ivey v. United States	Fourth Circuit	2023-06-14	Denied	Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP	burden-of-proof chapman-v-california constitutional-error criminal-procedure cumulative-error-doctrine evidentiary-errors harmless-error standard-of-review	When should evidentiary errors in a federal criminal trial be evaluated for their cumulative impact on the fundamental fairness of the trial?
22-7155	Kalid Koron Ocean-Avent v. United States	Fourth Circuit	2023-03-30	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	burden-of-proof criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-errors fair-trial firearm firearm-possession jury reasonable-doubt	Whether the Government proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. OceanAvent possessed a firearm
21-6970	Nigel Kinte Wright v. Steven Rivard, Warden	Sixth Circuit	2022-01-26	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	criminal-trial cumulative-errors due-process evidentiary-errors fundamental-fairness fundamental-unfairness harmless-error judicial-review sixth-amendment	To what extent is the test for analyzing whether cumulative evidentiary errors created a fundamentally unfair criminal trial coextensive with the test…
20-7702	Covia Dzell Smith v. United States	Fourth Circuit	2021-04-09	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	career-offender criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-errors fair-trial fourth-circuit-review ineffective-assistance right-to-present-defense sentencing sentencing-guidelines	Whether trial counsel's ineffective assistance deprived Mr. Smith of the right to offer evidence in his defense
20-5073	Gilberto Martinez-Hernandez v. United States	Ninth Circuit	2020-07-15	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure clear-error evidentiary-errors harmless-error judicial-review judicial-standard legal-sufficiency standard-of-review	Whether the court of appeals committed clear error by concluding that significant evidentiary errors were harmless