| 24-6739 |
Christopher L. Smith v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2025-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge due-process expert-witness-testimony fair-trial jury-discrimination prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the Ohio trial court clearly erred in not conducting the Batson three-step analysis for jury selection and in failing to address alleged discr… |
| 24-6591 |
Kimberly Sponaugle v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure expert-disclosure expert-witness-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence lay-opinion wire-fraud |
Whether the trial court erred in allowing prosecution expert witnesses to provide lay opinion testimony without making mandatory expert witness disclo… |
| 23-6611 |
Morice Ervin v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process expert-testimony expert-witness-testimony fair-trial favorable-evidence fourteenth-amendment lack-of-evidence post-autopsy prejudicial-questioning |
whether-petitioner's-due-process-rights-were-violated |
| 22-5054 |
Tyrik Upchurch v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process evidence-rules expert-testimony expert-witness-testimony judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings lay-witness-testimony new-trial standard-of-review third-circuit trial-error |
Did the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err in failing to award the Petitioner a new trial due to the District Court's error in allowing the go… |
| 20-5629 |
Lester Waller v. Vance Laughlin, Warden |
Georgia |
2020-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process expert-witness-testimony fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court-error waiver-of-counsel |
Did the Trial Court err when it determined Defendant's waiver of counsel was valid thus , violating his Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel and his Fourt… |
| 19-855 |
Lenin Lugo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
circuit-split expert-witness expert-witness-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement-opinion lay-witness lay-witness-testimony professional-experience rule-701 rule-702 |
Whether an opinion of a law enforcement officer that depends on the witness's professional experience is admissible as Rule 701 lay opinion or must me… |
| 19-472 |
City of East Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Charles Hunt, et al. |
Ohio |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion bifurcation civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-procedure-bifurcation discretion emergency-vehicle-immunity expert-witness-testimony juror-misconduct manifest-weight-of-evidence motion motion-to-bifurcate trial trial-court-discretion trial-procedure |
Whether the Trial Court abused its discretion when it denied Petitioners' Motion to Bifurcate the trial |
| 19-2 |
Jackie Hosang Lawson v. FMR LLC, dba Fidelity Investments, et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-06-28 |
Denied |
|
attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights due-process expert-witness-testimony federal-securities-law federal-securities-laws fraud fraud-allegations jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-standards sarbanes-oxley-act securities |
Is the jury verdict just and proper on the two deciding questions where the jury was not made aware of what constitutes violation of Federal law relat… |
| 18-9737 |
Laquan L. Kellam v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-rights expert-witness-testimony fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-rights fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights procedural-error search-and-seizure sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights statutory-interpretation warrantless-arrest |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit abuse its discretionary, broadly-based authority of interpretation, thus, violating petit… |
| 18-1551 |
Joseph Q. Mirarchi v. Office of Disciplinary Counsel |
Pennsylvania |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-disbarment constitutional-rights disbarment due-process due-process-clause effective-assistance-of-counsel expert-witness-testimony fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence mitigation-evidence neuropsychological-evidence sixth-amendment |
Whether the state supreme court order for attorney disbarment is inconsistent with the standards set forth in Selling v. Radford and In re Ruffalo, an… |
| 18-9446 |
Davon Kelly Bennett v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination custodial-interrogation daubert-standard due-process evidence expert-witness-testimony motion-to-suppress rule-404b sixth-amendment |
Whether the District Court deprived Petitioner of his right to confront witnesses |
| 18-246 |
Mary L. Doherty, et al. v. Allstate Indemnity Company |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-27 |
Denied |
|
anderson-v-liberty-lobby due-process expert-witness expert-witness-reports expert-witness-testimony fifth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence insurance-contract jury-trial mend-the-hold mend-the-hold-doctrine seventh-amendment summary-judgment |
Whether the affirmed Rule 56 summary judgment decision is inconsistent with the standard set forth in Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., and violative o… |