fabricated-evidence

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-870 In Re Delmart Vreeland 2026-01-21 Pending constitutional-violations fabricated-evidence habeas-corpus jurisdiction state-prisoner writ-of-certiorari Whether this Court's power to issue a writ of habeas corpus should be exercised when a state prisoner is confined by a court without jurisdiction and …
25-309 Kaeun Kim v. Mark Ali, et al. Third Circuit 2025-09-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights due-process fabricated-evidence prosecutorial-immunity section-1983 state-action Whether a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim that state officials fabricated evidence against the petitioner accrues only upon favorable termination of criminal p…
25A83 Jonathan Voorhis v. Cindy Digangi, et al. Third Circuit 2025-07-21 Presumed Complete absolute-immunity child-protective-services civil-rights due-process fabricated-evidence investigative-misconduct Whether absolute immunity shields child protective service workers from civil liability for fabricating evidence during child welfare investigations t…
24-5174 Michael D. Carver v. City of Kalamazoo, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied IFP absolute-immunity fabricated-evidence false-arrest fourth-amendment franks-doctrine investigative-conduct malicious-prosecution probable-cause qualified-immunity Whether Franks applies to material omissions, and whether probable cause is vitiated for a particular offense where the omitted information is exculpa…
23-1254 Stephen Ollar, et al. v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2024-05-31 Denied Response Waived bodily-integrity evidence-fabrication fabricated-evidence fifth-amendment fourth-amendment medical-procedure parental-consent parental-rights seizure state-action Whether the Fourth Amendment assures parents that, painful-and-medically-unnecessary-procedures-of-their-child-will-not-be-undertaken-for-investigativ…
22-7620 Timothy Sean Coogle v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process entrapment evidence-sufficiency fabricated-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence sixth-amendment strickland-standard Question not identified
22-732 Kaeun Kim v. Michael Saccento, et al. Second Circuit 2023-02-06 Denied civil-rights due-process fabricated-evidence fabrication-of-evidence fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution standing state-actors unreasonable-arrest Does an individual's Fourth Amendment right to free-from-unreasonable-arrest-and-detention continue beyond legal-process to allow a malicious-prosecut…
22-6368 Christopher J. Cox v. Illinois Illinois 2022-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence fabricated-evidence fair-trial false-witnesses fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process state-circuit-court Whether a defendant's procedural due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment have been violated
21-7940 Jason P. Thomas v. Morris Houser, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Benner Township, et al. Third Circuit 2022-05-23 Denied IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidentiary-hearing fabricated-evidence ineffective-assistance jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing Whether the District Court erred in disposing of Petitioner's claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel surrounding the failure to litigate a v…
21-7677 Kyle Maurice Parks v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-violation criminal-conviction due-process fabricated-evidence fourth-amendment human-trafficking illegal-search probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant Whether the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated by an illegal search and seizure without a warrant and probable cause affidavit
21-188 Eddison Ramsaran v. Candace Lapidus Sloane, et al. Massachusetts 2021-08-10 Denied Response Waived absolute-immunity administrative-investigation buckley-standard buckley-v-fitzsimmons evidence-fabrication fabricated-evidence medical-licensing medical-licensing-board pre-adjudicatory-investigation pre-adjudicatory-proceedings prosecutorial-function prosecutorial-immunity Whether non-attorney administrative officials are entitled to absolute immunity for fabricating evidence during a pre-adjudicatory investigation of a …
20-8205 In Re John L. McKenzie 2021-06-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fabricated-evidence false-evidence habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice perjury prosecutorial-misconduct Whether Petitioner is illegally confined due to fabricated evidence and false testimony
20-7734 Imeh U. Affiah v. Texas Southmost College, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process fabricated-evidence judicial-review legal-review procedural-due-process standing summary-judgment Whether the lower courts erred in relying solely on a summary judgment report without addressing all documents and concerns raised by the plaintiff
20-7489 Michael Formica v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fabricated-evidence fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-standards standing Whether the Fourth Circuit decision was debatable not to review the merits of the claims
20-432 S. O., et al. v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-neglect civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process evidence fabricated-evidence fifth-amendment perjured-testimony perjury standing Whether the Fifth Amendment prohibits the District of Columbia's use of fabricated evidence and perjured testimony in a civil child neglect proceeding…
19-8437 Joh-ner Taylor Wilson v. Illinois Illinois 2020-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process fabricated-evidence false-arrest fourth-amendment perjured-testimony probable-cause warrantless-arrest wrongful-conviction Whether Wilson's warrantless arrest and detention without probable cause violates the Fourth Amendment
19-7906 Angello A. D. Osborne v. Peter Georgiades Fourth Circuit 2020-03-11 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fabricated-evidence fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution police-misconduct stet unlawful-seizure Whether a 'STET' entry in a criminal prosecution precludes a defendant from recovering in a civil rights lawsuit against a police officer for fabricat…
19-1033 Daniel Enrique Cantú v. James M. Moody, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied bivens bivens-claim civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process evidence-fabrication fabricated-evidence federal-officer qualified-immunity standing Whether a plaintiff may pursue a claim under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971), alleging that…
19-979 Patrick S. Crick v. James Key, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abandonment abandonment-doctrine aedpa criminal-judgment due-process fabricated-evidence finality negligence post-conviction-counsel procedural-negligence state-finality Whether a State's interest in a judgment's finality is forfeited when the state fails to elicit the truth or fails to correct evidence it should know …
19-6384 Dieugrand Jacques v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fabricated-evidence false-evidence hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review post-conviction-relief right-to-appeal sex-offender-registration wrongful-conviction Why thousands of men and women like myself in this great country should continue to be kept illegally in prison only because a lawyer presented a fake…
19-538 Albert S. N. Hee v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response Waived circuit-court-precedent constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution due-process fabricated-evidence habeas-corpus stare-decisis substantive-constitutional-rights Does the Doctrine of Stare Decisis require the Federal Courts to follow its prior Circuit Decisions of substantive constitutional rights although this…
18-8462 William James Truesdale v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence fabricated-evidence fabrication-of-evidence fair-trial harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct trial-error Whether the erroneously admitted evidence reviewed objectively in light of the entire record before the jury was sufficiently material to provide the …
18-1063 John Cottam v. Douglas Pelton Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emotional-distress fabricated-evidence false-arrest law-enforcement-fabrication malicious-prosecution probable-cause qualified-immunity rule-56 summary-judgment Whether law enforcement fabrication of a felony charge against an innocent citizen precludes summary judgment on a false arrest claim
18-6945 William Nathaniel Washington v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process evidence-fabrication fabricated-evidence false-evidence law-enforcement law-enforcement-misconduct miranda-waiver If there exist authentic uncontradicted testimonial evidence in the record of a criminal proceedings that proves that a member of a law enforcement ag…
18-6079 Rowan Brooks v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process evidence-fabrication fabricated-evidence forensic-evidence habeas-corpus judicial-review ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review state-court-proceedings Where the state court disposed of Brooks' constitutional claims by relying on 'evidence' that indisputably did not exist and the district court affirm…