federal-agent

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
21-7162 Jose Jaime Lopez v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conflict-of-interest criminal-intent due-process ex-parte-communications false-statement federal-agent judicial-bias knowingly-false materiality obstruction-of-justice public-confidence Whether it is consistent with this Court's holding in Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co., 556 U.S. 868 and the imperatives of Due Process to require the…
19-7580 Constantine Gus Cristo v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 26-usc-7491 9th-circuit burden-of-proof credible-evidence federal-agent irs-restructuring-and-reform-act-of-1998 ninth-circuit statutory-interest tax-court taxpayer-rights unconstitutional-conduct Whether the Petitioner's production of 'credible' evidence in the form of written admissions of unconstitutional conduct by a federal agent, citing § …
18-7308 Ronnie Junior Rodriguez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony expert-witness federal-agent jury-instructions photographic-evidence pro-se-defense prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony Whether the defendant's due process rights were violated when the government presented unreliable expert testimony and improperly influenced the jury
18-6122 Sheri Lee Pualani Kapahu v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP boarding-a-plane consensual-encounter detention drug-possession federal-agent fourth-amendment law-enforcement-interaction reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard search-and-seizure Whether a reasonable person would feel free to ignore a federal agent's direct accusation of drug possession and go about her business of boarding a p…