evidentiary-rules

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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…