| 25-5545 |
Miguel Angel Homedes v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review closing-argument due-process evidentiary-rules prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure |
Whether improper prosecutorial statements in closing argument are sufficiently flagrant to warrant reversal, where they inserted facts not directly in… |
| 24-5260 |
Jess Richard Smith v. Washington |
Washington |
2024-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-rules habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief |
Whether Washington State's evidentiary rules regarding post-conviction relief violate due process when determining habeas corpus claims |
| 23-7526 |
Thomas Webster v. Natalie Haskins, Program Director, Haskins Residential Care |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-rules expert-witness judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings motion-timing standards-of-review |
Whether the lower court erred in allowing the defendant to introduce a crucial piece of evidence, an expert witness's report, after the closing of mot… |
| 23-5500 |
Le'Troy D. Merritt v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-rules fair-trial federal-appeal habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process state-action |
Can a state's evidentiary rules violate the Constitution's due process clause by depriving a defendant of a fair trial? |
| 22-6810 |
Jason Jarvis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution defendant-rights due-process evidence evidentiary-rules fourth-amendment legal-standing prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure suppressed-evidence |
Whether suppressed evidence or evidence not belonging to the defendant can be used against the defendant to prosecute him? |
| 20-7675 |
John G. Stroming v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-gender-differences child-molestation criminal-procedure criminal-propensity evidence evidence-admissibility evidentiary-rules federal-law prior-convictions propensity victim-characteristics |
Whether prior convictions for crimes of child molestation can be admitted into evidence where — because of differences in the age and gender of the vi… |
| 20-5560 |
Briand Daniel Fechner v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit evidence evidentiary-rules propensity-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure sixth-circuit |
Whether the prosecution may introduce child pornography videos at trial that were not found on the defendant's devices, but found in an outside invest… |
| 20-5580 |
Kyle Phillips v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process due-process-clause evidence-law evidentiary-rules fourteenth-amendment prior-act-evidence sexual-battery |
Whether it is a violation of the due process guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment for irrelevant prior-act evidence to be received in a criminal tri… |
| 19-8672 |
Terry Bridges v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-rules murder-evidence prejudice prejudicial-testimony rehabilitation sentencing trial-court-discretion uncharged-crime |
Whether the trial court erred in permitting the State to introduce excessive evidence relating to the murder of Keith Sluggs of which Terry Bridges wa… |
| 19-7875 |
Byron Gay v. Scott Daffenbach, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure court-procedure dna-testing evidence evidentiary-rules judicial-admission judicial-admissions legal-standards scientific-evidence standards |
Question not identified. |
| 19-7800 |
Donald Sheman Bush v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion circuit-split de-novo de-novo-review evidence-admissibility evidence-rule-404b evidentiary-rules federal-rules-of-evidence-404(b) legal-interpretation other-acts rule-404b standard-of-review |
Whether evidence falls within Rule 404(b) |
| 19-6150 |
Chad M. Cutler v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-rules expert-testimony hearsay hearsay-statements prosecutorial-misconduct standards-of-review supreme-court-conflict |
Whether the Illinois Appellate Court and Illinois Supreme Court erred in their rulings on the admissibility of hearsay statements, the proper standard… |
| 19-5970 |
Murad Razzaq v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-evidence criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process due-process-clause evidence evidentiary-rules prior-bad-acts prior-crimes propensity-evidence state-prosecution state-supreme-courts unrelated-crimes |
Does a state violate a defendant's due process rights by admitting evidence of a prior, unrelated crime to show his propensity to commit another crime… |
| 19-141 |
Jeffrey Fairbanks v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-rules ex-post-facto judicial-construction jury jury-instructions propensity-evidence reasonable-doubt vague-statute vagueness |
Whether the judiciary violated the Ex Post Facto Clause when it created a new evidentiary holding to excuse the impermissible use of propensity eviden… |
| 18-6501 |
Carl A. Robertson v. Interactive College of Technology, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cat's-paw-theory civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination evidentiary-rules mcdonnell-douglas-framework pretext pro-se pro-se-litigant scheduling-order standing summary-judgment title-vii |
Should a pro se litigant's First Proposed Heightened Amended Complaint be unfairly denied by courts based on not following Scheduling Order, undue del… |
| 18-5598 |
John J. Moore, Jr. v. Michael Stephan, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-rule evidentiary-rules fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pcr-hearing post-conviction-relief presumption-of-correctness sixth-amendment |
Whether the State Court's determination of factual issues is presumed correct or should have been presumed correct, and whether Petitioner sustained h… |