fair-trial-rights
7 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6912 | Thomas Bartholomew Simpson v. Joseph Walters, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-25 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | cross-examination due-process fair-trial-rights foundational-objections prosecutorial-misconduct text-message-evidence | I. Whether it requires the circuit court to probe lay witness tes testimony or specialist forensic analysis testimony to overcome foundational objec… |
| 25-969 | Anthony Zottola, Sr. v. United States | Second Circuit | 2026-02-18 | Denied | Response Waived | anonymous-jury declaration-against-penal-interest fair-trial-rights hearsay-exception presumption-of-innocence right-to-present-defense | 1. Whether a defendant's right to present a defense is violated when he is precluded from offering a declarant's out-of-court, self-inculpatory narrat… |
| 25-378 | Donald Olsen v. Aaron Salter | Sixth Circuit | 2025-09-30 | Denied | Amici (1) | brady-violation exculpatory-evidence fair-trial-rights identification-procedure qualified-immunity section-1983 | The Circuit Courts of Appeals are in conflict on the question of whether and when a police officer may be held liable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for a v… |
| 24-5073 | Billy Hammonds v. Fredeane Artis, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof fair-trial-rights ineffective-assistance judicial-bias mistrial prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court-bias witness-testimony | I. WAS MR. HAMMONDS DENIED EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL GUARANTEED BY THE FEDERAL AND STATE CONSTITUTIONS (U.S CONST. 1963, ART l § 20) WHERE TRI… |
| 20-1164 | Donald E. Boyd v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-02-24 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights due-process fair-trial fair-trial-rights involuntary-medication psychotropic-drugs right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment xanax-dosage | 1. Whether the State of New Jersey's administration of unreasonably high doses of the controlled psychotropic drug Xanax (i.e., dosages four times the… |
| 19-5296 | Ozzie Davis v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-07-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bruton-v-us criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial-rights jackson-v-virginia prosecutorial-misconduct state-trial sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-precedent third-degree-murder | WHETHER THE PENNSYLVANIA SUPERIOR COURT'S DENIAL ON DIRECT REVIEW OF THE CHALLENGE TO THE SUFFICIENCY OF THE EVIDENCE IN SUPPORT OF PETITIONER'S CON… |
| 18-8499 | Nestor David Vasquez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | almendarez-torres apprendi constitutional-fairness courtroom-prejudice courtroom-security defendant-rights defendant-specific-security fair-trial fair-trial-rights inherent-prejudice inherently-prejudicial judicial-procedure ninth-circuit-review prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-enhancements trial-security | 1. In Holbrook v. Flynn , 475 U.S. 560, 570-72 (1986), the Court held that the mere presence of guards at a trial was not so inherently prejudicial th… |