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25-6785 Nicholas Craig Woozencroft v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-12 Pending IFP alternative-theories circuit-split criminal-jury-trial evidence-relevance federal-rules-of-evidence legal-standard Whether evidence can satisfy Rule 401's relevance standard in criminal jury trials even if the evidence would not tend to disprove every alternative t…
25-919 Union Carbide Corporation, et al. v. Lee Ann Sommerville Fourth Circuit 2026-02-04 Pending admissibility burden-of-proof evidentiary-standard expert-witness federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-circuit-split Whether, under Federal Rule of Evidence 702, challenges to the factual basis of an expert witness's testimony always go to the weight of the evidence …
25-874 Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. v. Narguess Noohi, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Ninth Circuit 2026-01-22 Pending civil-procedure class-certification daubert-standard evidentiary-standards expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence Whether expert testimony must be admissible under Federal Rule of Evidence 702 and the framework enunciated in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals,…
25-6546 Miguel Bocardo and Cyr Dino Banguguilan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-01-12 Pending Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals district-court evidence-challenge federal-rules-of-evidence rule-403 sexual-abuse QP1: Did appellants Cyr Banguguilan and Miguel Bocardo forfeit their Fed. R. Evid. 403 challenge to the admission of photographs and video recordings …
25-792 Neil Binder v. Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC Third Circuit 2026-01-07 Pending Response Waived federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-review procedural-due-process rule-1006 rule-60 summary-evidence Whether a court may exclude a Federal Rule of Evidence 1006 summary derived entirely from records already admitted into evidence without reviewing it,…
25A565 Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. v. Narguess Noohi, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Ninth Circuit 2025-11-14 Application circuit-split civil-procedure class-certification expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence rule-702 Whether federal district courts must apply the full rigor of Federal Rule of Evidence 702 at the class certification stage, or may conduct a more limi…
25-6092 Olegario Lares-De La Rosa v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence-interpretation federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement-testimony lay-opinion Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 701 permits a law enforcement officer to provide a lay opinion about the meaning of ordinary language used in a recor…
25-288 Vinaykumar Patel v. United States Third Circuit 2025-09-11 Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment hearsay-evidence law-enforcement-testimony sixth-amendment Whether the introduction of speculative lay opinion by a law enforcement officer violates the petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights and eviden…
25-5462 Deandre Wilson v. United States Second Circuit 2025-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-courts constitutional-rights criminal-defendants due-process evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence Are the divided federal appellate courts applying too stringent a standard when evaluating the admissibility of evidence under Federal Rule of Evidenc…
25-56 Qinghua Zhang, et al. v. Federal Home Loan Bank of Topeka Tenth Circuit 2025-07-15 Denied Response Waived admissibility circuit-split compromise-offers federal-rules-of-evidence settlement-negotiations severance-agreements Does inadmissibility of F.R.E. 408 apply to severance agreements when no claims exist?
24-7272 Carlos Barragan Leon v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP daubert-standard evidence-reliability expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence kumho-tire translation-methodology Did the district court's failure to make the required reliability finding pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 702 of the methodology and principles u…
24-7180 Yolanda M. Williams v. Austin Police Department Fifth Circuit 2025-05-12 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights district-court federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-misconduct legal-standing Did the Judges and Officers of the U.S. District Court Western District of Texas deprive petitioner of her constitutional rights and fail to abide by …
24-7054 Oscar J. Martinez-Hernandez v. United States First Circuit 2025-04-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split confrontation-clause due-process federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay-evidence sixth-amendment Whether uncorroborated hearsay under Federal Rule of Evidence 801(d)(2)(E) without independent proof of conspiracy violates the Sixth Amendment's Conf…
24-6886 Jonathan Lynn Jenkins v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review confession-admissibility criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence harmless-error jury-role Whether an appellate court improperly displaces the jury's role to determine guilt by assuming error occurred when the district court improperly admit…
24-6849 Terrance Deandre Ellison v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP cross-examination evidentiary-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay-evidence recent-fabrication witness-credibility Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 801(d)(1)(B)(i) permits introduction of hearsay to rebut a charge of recent fabrication when statements were made wit…
24-991 Joshua Herrera v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-18 Denied appellate-review child-sexual-offense criminal-procedure expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence psychological-evidence Whether the Eleventh Circuit improperly restricted expert testimony on sexual interest in children contrary to the Supreme Court's recent decision in …
24-6749 Foster Lee Scott v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation expert-testimony fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence intent-determination mens-rea Whether the testimony of Sergeant Helms establishes the required mens rea and violates evidentiary rules and constitutional standards
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…
24-6105 Ryan Lewis Hilyard v. Wyoming Wyoming 2024-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence fourteenth-amendment procedural-default strickland-standard Did the Wyoming Supreme Court apply federal rules of evidence correctly and deny Mr. Hilyard's Fourteenth Amendment right to effective assistance of c…
24-5945 Jodi Rouviere v. Howmedica Osteonics Corporation, dba Stryker Orthopaedics, et al. Second Circuit 2024-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP federal-rules-of-evidence jury-consideration material-fact reasonable-diligence seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether the trial court improperly removed the factual inquiry into reasonable diligence and material fact questions from jury consideration in violat…
24-462 Mark Kelly v. Daniel Dorman, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-10-24 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing citation-rules federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-precedent summary-dismissal unpublished-dispositions Do federal courts require permitting citation of statements from unpublished dispositions to establish material facts, and under what circumstances ca…
24-5638 Kareem Swinton v. United States Second Circuit 2024-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-conspirator-statements constitutional-rights federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment hearsay-testimony sixth-amendment Whether the admission of hearsay testimony from unidentified co-conspirators without knowledge of their identity violates constitutional rights
24-5394 Nathan Brooks Manuelito v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-prosecution dual-purpose-statements evidence-reliability federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay-exception medical-treatment Whether statements made, in part, to provide evidence for a criminal prosecution can satisfy the hearsay exception in Federal Rule of Evidence 803(4) …
24-5335 Valentino Cabral Darosa v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence fingerprint-evidence good-faith-exception search-warrant Whether the Fourth Circuit's decision in United States v. Darosa conflicts with other Circuit Courts' precedents regarding the admissibility of finger…
24-5240 Bradley Dale Hull v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied IFP federal-rules-of-evidence intent intent-element lower-court-decisions other-act-evidence prejudice probative-value rule-403 rule-404(b) rule-404b unfair-prejudice whether-other-act-evidence-under-rule-404(b)-is-substantially-outweighed-by-unfair-prejudice-under-rule-403
24-5132 Charles Fitzgerald Branch v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split evidence-admissibility evidence-admission federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay hearsay-rule judicial-interpretation non-hearsay non-hearsay-probative-value probative-value procedural-standard Should this Court resolve a split between the Ninth and Third circuits on the admission of evidence for a non-hearsay purpose when its non-hearsay pro…
23-7605 Rodrigo Alvarez-Quinonez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-31 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-court-split federal-rule-of-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence harmless-error jury-factfinding-role law-enforcement-witness law-enforcement-witnesses lay-opinion-testimony percipient-knowledge witness-testimony Whether law enforcement agent testimony under Federal Rule of Evidence 701 based on overall investigation knowledge is permissible
23-7575 Oscar Dillon, III v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acquittal acquitted-conduct criminal-culpability double-jeopardy federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment rule-404(b) trial-procedure unrelated-charges Whether the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits the introduction of acquitted criminal conduct under Rule 404(b) in a separate trial wh…
23-7492 Trezith Rashad Smart v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-05-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP federal-rules-of-evidence findings fourth-circuit-court judicial-error motion-to-dismiss prior-inconsistent-statement speedy-trial-act witness-impeachment zedner-v-united-states whether-the-fourth-circuit-appellate-court-commit-clear-or-plain-error
23-7491 Caesar V. Vaca v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-introduction fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel trial-attorney Whether trial attorney's error resulted in the introduction of evidence under Federal Rules of Evidence 404(b) that led to an unfair conviction
23-7438 Anthony Espinosa Gonzales v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review computer-generated-evidence conviction court-of-appeals due-process evidence evidence-authentication evidentiary-standards federal-rule-of-evidence-901(b)(9) federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-procedure Did the court of appeals' ratification of the use of computer-generated evidence to convict petitioner represent a clear departure from the requiremen…
23-1160 Derrick Williams v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-04-25 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence first-amendment fourteenth-amendment petition-clause right-to-counsel Whether the fundamental right to petition the state courts is restricted by any timeframe for appealing the denial or deprivation of counsel on direct…
23-7047 Renaire Roshique Lewis, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP coconspirator-hearsay counsel criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment miranda-warnings right-to-counsel Whether the presence of counsel obviates the need for Miranda warnings
23-6866 Cesar Abreu v. United States Second Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility federal-rule-of-evidence-404b federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment narcotics narcotics-distribution prior-conviction prior-convictions search-and-seizure Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, affirming Petitioner's conviction of narcotics distribution in the …
23-6616 Fan Yang v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP complete-defense criminal-defendant criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-exclusion federal-rules-of-evidence jury-trial right-to-present-defense rule-403 Whether a court may exclude evidence under Fed. R. Evid. 403, where doing so would preclude a criminal defendant from presenting a complete defense to…
23-6623 Johnl Jackson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-evidence notice-requirement sex-trafficking Whether the criminal defendant's constitutional trial rights require the admission of the complainant's other prostitution activities to rebut the gov…
23-721 Gayle Killilea v. Richard M. Coan, et al. Second Circuit 2024-01-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) avoidance-action bankruptcy-law civil-procedure evidence expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence jury property-transfer rules-of-evidence statutory-interpretation trust Whether expert testimony may be excluded under Rules 702 and 704 because the expert offers an opinion on the relevant question of fact
23-6177 Sylvia Olivas, aka Sylvia Lee Gavaldon v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-06 GVR Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-activity criminal-procedure expert-testimony expert-witness federal-rules-of-evidence mens-rea mental-state trier-of-fact Does Rule 704(b) permit a government expert witness to testify about certain roles in criminal activity, that people in those roles are knowing partic…
23-5838 Mario Reynoso, aka Mario Hernandez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility-of-evidence character-evidence district-court-discretion district-courts evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence non-propensity-purpose reasoning rule-404(b)(2) rule-404b ultimate-decision Whether Rule 404(b)(2) of the Federal Rules of Evidence permits district courts the use of reasoning to reach an ultimate decision whether to admit th…
23-5762 Isaiah Whitefox Redbird v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP where context made the basis of his objection to criminal-procedure evidence-preservation federal-rules-of-evidence plain-error-review preservation-requirement propensity-evidence tenth-circuit Did the Tenth Circuit incorrectly hold that Mr. Redbird's claim was not preserved, where context made the basis of his objection to exclude the prosec…
23-5715 Taquan Rahshe Gullett-El v. Internal Revenue Service, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-05 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation consular-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-notice national-identity sovereign-status standing state-law treaty-rights Whether the petitioner has standing to challenge the court's judicial notice of certain facts under Federal Rule of Evidence 201 and Florida Statute §…
23-5719 Jerrell West v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-provisions court-procedure evidence expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence legal-jurisdiction prejudicial probative statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari Can the Dirsbei ch Court4 allow Exper Testimony when it is More Presuodicial than Probatfive under Rules 702 and 403?
23-298 Riverdale Mills Corporation v. Julie A. Su, Acting Secretary of Labor District of Columbia 2023-09-25 Denied Response Waived administrative-law auer-deference due-process federal-rules-of-evidence occupational-safety-and-health-administration osha-citation substantial-evidence Whether the United States Court of Appeals correctly applied the substantial-evidence-standard
23-187 Michael Ramon Ochoa v. Arthur Levine, et al. Pennsylvania 2023-08-29 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure cloud-based-evidence cloud-computing constitutional-jurisdiction discovery evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence hipaa-privacy-rule judicial-procedure medical-records rule-32 Are the cloud-based #NewOrganon and the dashboard tools attached as exhibits admissible as models per Rule 32 of this Court?
23-5332 Tamara Jeune, aka Tamara Voltaire v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied IFP circuit-court-split circuit-split evidence-rule federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-interpretation prejudice probative-value propensity-evidence rule-404(b) trial-procedure How are the courts to properly apply Fed. R. Evid. 404(b)?
23-5259 Ryan Lewis Hilyard v. Wyoming Wyoming 2023-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-decisions Did the Wyoming Supreme Court apply and follow Federal Rules of Evidence correctly?
23-5238 John Edward Scott v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-jurisprudence federal-rules-of-evidence machine-generated-data machine-produced-data supreme-court-jurisprudence testimonial-evidence testimonial-statements Who has the burden to show that a report sought to be introduced includes 'raw, machine produced data' and not testimonial statements triggering the C…
23-5020 Christopher Delgado v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidentiary-standard federal-rules-of-evidence inextricably-intertwined other-bad-acts rule-404(b) rule-404b standard Whether evidence of other bad acts is exempted from the limits and requirements of Rule 404(b) of the Federal Rules of Evidence when it is 'inextricab…
22-7878 Kenny Eugene Smart v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-922(g) criminal-procedure evidence-standard evidentiary-rulings federal-rule-of-evidence-404(b) federal-rules-of-evidence prior-convictions rule-404b rule-of-inclusion standard-of-review statutory-interpretation What is the proper standard of review of evidentiary rulings under Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) and is Rule 404(b) a rule of inclusion which always…
22-7748 Mike Webb v. James Christian Kimmel, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-06-09 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure default-judgment discretionary-power evidence-exclusion federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-review motion-to-dismiss rico rico-statute Whether it is an abuse of discretion to exclude relevant evidence in a RICO case
22-7090 Frank Gallardo v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-exclusion expert-testimony fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence speedy-trial Whether the district court abused its discretion in admitting Tonkel's testimony under FRE 807(b)
22-769 Weixing V. Wang v. Brandywyne Common Condominium New Hampshire 2023-02-16 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidence-rules federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-misconduct standing summary-judgment Solely-with-lies-and-fabricated-numbers-on-paper-without-evidence-how-can-petitioner-be-ordered-to-pay
22-6581 John Krasley v. United States Third Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure defendant's-other-bad-acts evidence-rule federal-rules-of-evidence propensity-evidence rule-404(b) third-party-acts Whether Rule 404(b) applies to all 'person[s],' as the Rule explicitly provides, or instead only to a defendant's other bad acts or crimes, and not th…
22-6563 Jaquain Young v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP complete-defense confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-discretion right-to-present-defense severance witness-recantation Whether the district court erred in excluding witness Tierra Lewis's out-of-court identification of codefendant Esau Ferdinand under FRE 403, thereby …
22-6535 Murphy Alex Begay v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment audio-recording civil-procedure constitutional district-court due-process evidence-rules federal-rules-of-evidence rule-106 rule-of-completeness Did the District court violate the Petitioners 14th Amendment right of the Due Process Clause, by denying the introduction of the complete audio recor…
22-5980 Arius Hopkins v. United States Second Circuit 2022-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence grand-jury rule-404(b) trial-fairness Whether the admission of evidence of prior alleged conduct similar to the crime on trial and dismissed by a grand jury, which was noticed for one purp…
22-5917 In Re John David Stahlman 2022-10-26 Denied IFP criminal-procedure discovery discovery-rights due-process fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence habeas-corpus harmless-error Did the court of appeals violate the petitioner's rights to a fair trial, due process, and discovery?
22-5691 Meamen Jean Nyah v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence-rule-404b federal-rules-of-evidence firearms firearms-case judicial-interpretation prior-bad-acts propensity-evidence Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) should be construed as a rule of inclusion resulting in certain admissibility of prior bad acts and use of pro…
22-5508 Hanford Chiu v. United States First Circuit 2022-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant Whether a faulty search warrant that was executed without probable cause and without a good faith exception violates Fourth Amendment protections
22-5252 Carlos Fleitas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-procedure non-expert-testimony sentence-enhancement sentencing-enhancement writ-of-certiorari Should a higher standard, apart from that permitted by Fed. R. Evid. 1101(d)(3), apply when a defendant's sentence is enhanced based on non-expert tes…
22-5072 Basil Bey v. United States Third Circuit 2022-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence-rule-701 evidentiary-standards federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement-testimony opinion-evidence uniform-standards witness-testimony Whether this Court should set limits on what law enforcement testimony should be admitted as opinion evidence under Federal Rule of Evidence 701
22-5055 Amin Wadley, aka Jamil Abdul Amin White v. United States Third Circuit 2022-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial-procedure evidence-rules evidentiary-standards federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement law-enforcement-testimony lay-witness lay-witness-testimony opinion-evidence opinion-testimony Whether this Court should set limits on what law enforcement testimony should be admitted as opinion evidence under Federal Rule of Evidence 701
21-7909 Kevin D. Moore v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-19 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appointment-affidavit civil-procedure civil-rights civil-servant due-process federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-discretion oath-of-office standing united-states-attorney Whether an individual who does not have an Appointment Affidavit and has not taken the Oath of Office can become a civil servant/Assistant United Stat…
21-7870 Greg Cantoni v. United States Second Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split circuit-court-standards daubert discovery-violation expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence harmless-error jencks-act prosecutorial-discretion Which standard must be applied to determine whether a Jencks Act violation is prejudicial or harmless?
21-1397 In Re Grand Jury Ninth Circuit 2022-05-02 Judgment Issued Amici (16)Relisted (2) attorney-client-privilege circuit-split civil-procedure communication-protection confidentiality federal-rules-of-evidence legal-advice non-legal-advice professional-communication significant-purpose Whether a communication involving both legal and non-legal advice is protected by attorney-client privilege
21-1320 Robert Campo, et al. v. Department of Justice, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-04-04 Denied Response Waived constitutional-precedent court-interpretation evidence-rules federal-rules-of-evidence federal-rules-of-procedure freedom-of-information-act judicial-discretion judicial-review procedural-rules supreme-court-precedent u.s-constitution Whether federal judges are free to flout and violate FOIA, federal rules, the Constitution, and Supreme Court precedent in FOIA adjudications
21-7003 Latique Johnson v. United States Second Circuit 2022-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility admissibility-standard ballistics ballistics-testimony evidence expert-testimony expert-witness federal-rules-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence firearm forensic-science scientific-reliability Whether testimony by ballistics toolmark experts that a particular firearm fired recovered bullets or casings is presently so flawed as to be inadmiss…
21-6919 Kevin Vigil v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure evidence-of-continuous-excitement excited-utterance federal-criminal-jurisdiction federal-evidence-rule federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay-exception indian-country-status indian-law pueblo-lands-act Whether a hearsay statement may be properly admitted as an excited utterance
21-6785 Jarvis Thomas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence government-witness hypothetical-question hypothetical-questions rule-704b Whether Fed. R. Evid. 704(b) precludes a government expert in a criminal case from opining that the defendant knowingly participated in the charged cr…
21-980 Brad Jennings v. Daniel F. Nash, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) evidentiary-doctrine federal-rules-of-evidence jury-instructions opening-the-door prejudicial-effect probative-value rule-403 summary-judgment Does the doctrine of 'opening the door' require the traditional Federal Rules of Evidence Rule 403 balancing of probative value versus prejudicial eff…
21-6704 Jose D. Drew v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence jury-inference material-element prior-convictions rule-404(b) rule-404b Whether the abuse of discretion review of the introduction of multiple prior convictions as rule 404(b) evidence requires the government to offer some…
21-6396 Tamara Jeune v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-23 Dismissed IFP circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-propensity evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence prejudice prior-bad-acts probative-value propensity-evidence How are the courts to properly apply Fed. R. Evid. 404(b)?
21-6314 Carl Alvin Cushing v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-trials evidence-evaluation expert-testimony federal-rule-of-evidence-702 federal-rules-of-evidence jury-function law-enforcement law-enforcement-experts percipient-witnesses prosecutorial-discretion Whether law enforcement expert testimony contradicting percipient witnesses satisfies Federal Rule of Evidence 702
21-6264 Marion Katrell Campbell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP district-court-discretion due-process evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence rule-404(b) rule-404b rule-702 trial-procedure Whether the district court improperly allowed Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) & 702 in petitioner's trial
21-6241 Eric J. Turner v. Richard L. Broch Seventh Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-evidence habeas-corpus legal-competency mental-competency schizophrenia Whether the trial court failed to order a determination of the defendant's schizophrenia?
21-5770 Arthur Perrault v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 403-balancing-test due-process fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence jury-unanimity sexual-misconduct Does the uncertainty engendered by the lack of uniform application of Federal Rules of Evidence 413/414 and the 403 balancing test permit district cou…
21-5579 Emmanuel Perez v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility evidence-rule evidentiary-standard federal-rules-of-evidence inextricably-intertwined judicial-interpretation standard-of-review Whether the 'inextricably intertwined' standard is a proper exception to Fed.R.Evid. 404(b)
21-5570 Richard Boyle v. United States Third Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court due-process evidence-admission federal-rules-of-evidence prior-convictions stare-decisis undue-prejudice witness-testimony Whether the federal courts are free to withdraw the protection from undue prejudice which emanates from the required four-step process as set forth in…
21-5489 Jerris M. Blanks v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-08-26 Denied IFP circuit-conflict criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence good-cause judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-offer prejudicial-evidence pretrial-motion Whether a defendant can refile a pretrial motion after withdrawing it
21-277 Betty E. Smith, as Attorney-In-Fact for Paul C. Smith, Individually and on Behalf of the ERISA-Covered Plan v. HPR Clinic, LLC, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-08-25 Denied daubert-standard district-court evidentiary-procedure expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-appointment methodology methodology-standards rule-706 Whether an expert appointed by agreement of the parties by a District Court under Federal Rule of Evidence 706 must employ methodology that is general…
21-5301 Justin Lane Foust v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP daubert daubert-standard expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence forensic-evidence general-acceptance handwriting-analysis handwriting-comparison judicial-reliability kumho-tire scientific-methodology Can the admissibility of expert testimony about the supposed author of a forged writing be upheld on a record that shows little (if anything) more tha…
21-5039 Gavin Wayne Wright v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied IFP co-conspirator-statements co-defendant criminal-conspiracy due-process entrapment false-statements federal-rules-of-evidence government-agent jury-instruction materiality testimony Was the quantum and character of this evidence in the record sufficient to entitle him to a jury instruction on entrapment?
21-5032 Paris Poe v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP daubert daubert-standard evidence evidence-admissibility expert-testimony feature-comparison federal-rules-of-evidence reliability-standard scientific-methodology scientific-reliability subjective-feature-comparison Whether Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Federal Rule of Evidence 702 require lower courts to properly analyze the admissibility of ev…
20-8404 Andre Brown and Anthony Wilson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split coded-language drug-jargon expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement-testimony lay-witness rule-701 Whether government agents can testify solely as lay witnesses under Rule 701 of the Federal Rules of Evidence
20-8322 Fabian Perpall v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied IFP circuit-split contested-issue criminal-evidence criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence not-guilty-plea plea-of-not-guilty prior-bad-acts rule-404(b) rule-404b state-of-mind Whether a defendant's plea of not guilty alone makes his prior convictions admissible under Rule 404(b) to show 'state of mind'
20-8143 Merwin Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-05-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution evidence evidence-rule-404b federal-prosecution federal-rules-of-evidence gun-possession prior-convictions propensity-evidence rule-404(b) Whether federal prosecutors can introduce evidence of a person's prior conviction for unlawful gun possession in a prosecution based on police testimo…
20-8116 Carlos Bayon v. United States Second Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rule-of-evidence-404(b) federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-discretion legal-interpretation rule-of-exclusion rule-of-inclusion Is Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) a rule of inclusion or exclusion?
20-8081 Melvin Roshard Alfred v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence intrinsic-evidence misconduct-evidence rule-404(b) rule-404b social-media uncharged-misconduct Whether uncharged misconduct evidence that does not directly prove the charged crime may be deemed 'intrinsic evidence' and admitted without the admis…
20-7697 Matthew Berckmann v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-rule evidence-rule-404(b) evidentiary-standard federal-rules-of-evidence motive-opportunity-intent propensity-evidence rule-404b same-victim victim-testimony Whether other act evidence under Rule 404(b) involving the same 'victim' is automatically admissible
20-7482 Lavellous Purcell v. United States Second Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied IFP electronic-data-privacy federal-rules-of-evidence fourth-amendment general-warrants internet-privacy interstate-commerce mann-act particularity-requirement probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant Whether a search warrant ordering Facebook to hand over the defendant's entire account to law enforcement for review, without limiting either Facebook…
20-1042 Pedro Hernandez v. New York New York 2021-01-29 Denied Response Waived constitutional-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-rules-of-evidence holmes-precedent holmes-v-south-carolina relevance-standard third-party-guilt Whether the Constitution permits courts to subject evidence of third-party guilt to heightened relevance standards
20-6974 Freddie Lee Wilson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 404(b) background-evidence circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-trial drug-evidence evidence-rule federal-rules-of-evidence jury-testimony res-gestae Should the Court grant certiorari to make clear that Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) now controls the use of other acts evidence, and that there is no…
20-6844 Jose Angel Torres v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay rule-of-completeness video-evidence Is a Defendant denied a Fair Trial when a District Court Finds that additional video evidence is admissible under the Rule of Completeness to prevent …
20-5947 Craig Martin Shults v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-115 criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process evidence-admissibility federal-judge federal-rules-of-evidence federal-statute federal-threat subsequent-act-evidence Whether subsequent act evidence of additional threats is admissible in an 18 U.S.C. § 115(a)(1)(B) prosecution for threatening a federal judge when th…
20-5905 Travon Jarvel Jackson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence rule-412 rule-608b sex-trafficking sixth-amendment witness-impeachment Whether evidence of prior prostitution activity that is inadmissible under Rule 412 of the Federal Rules of Evidence to rebut a claim of sex trafficki…
20-420 Jack R. T. Jordan v. Department of Labor Eighth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure-act constitutional-interpretation federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence foia foia-review judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure judicial-review supreme-court-precedent Whether lower courts may disregard FOIA-judicial-review-provisions,administrative-procedure-act,federal-rules-of-civil-procedure,federal-rules-of-evid…
20-5481 Fredrick Brown v. United States Third Circuit 2020-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP cross-examination federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment mens-rea prior-acts sixth-amendment victim-witness-evidence Were the Petitioner's rights under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments infringed?
20-129 Muhanad Elfatih M. A. Badawi v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-08-07 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence foreign-terrorist-organization material-support old-chief old-chief-precedent rule-403 terrorism-evidence Whether graphic evidence of terrorism, admitted without the balancing test required by Fed. R. Evid. 403 and Old Chief v. United States, 519 U.S. 172,…
19-8887 Maria Pena-Rivera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court evidence-admissibility evidence-admission evidentiary-standard federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-error rule-403 rule-404(b) Is it error by the district court to fail to enumerate the specific basis for allowing evidence pursuant for Federal Rule of Evidence section 404(b) s…
19-8819 Hector Rivera v. United States Second Circuit 2020-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternative-evidence confrontation-right cross-examination district-court-discretion evidentiary-limitation federal-rules-of-evidence rule-403 sixth-amendment Whether a district court's discretion to limit the Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses is as broad as the general discretion to limit evidence…
19-8588 Robert Donelson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied IFP 404(b) circuit-split criminal-case criminal-procedure defendant-rights evidence-rule federal-rules federal-rules-of-evidence prior-act-evidence propensity-evidence propensity-free-link Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b)'s prohibition against prior act evidence requires the government to demonstrate a propensity-free link between…
19-8528 Melvin Russell v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-05-22 Denied IFP circuit-split complainant complainant-testimony criminal-defendant evidence-proffering federal-rule-of-evidence-412 federal-rules-of-evidence rape-shield-rule sexual-behavior substantive-evidence Whether a criminal defendant must proffer substantive evidence regarding a complainant's other sexual behavior under Federal Rule of Evidence 412
19-8456 Thomas Hopes v. United States Third Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split essential-elements evidence-standard federal-rules-of-evidence helpfulness law-enforcement-witnesses lay-opinion-testimony personal-perception rule-701 usurping-jury-role Whether the personal perception and helpfulness requirements of Rule 701 are satisfied where the government's law enforcement witnesses provide lay op…
19-8449 Gregory Harris, Jr. v. United States Third Circuit 2020-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-prosecution evidentiary-standards federal-rules-of-evidence helpfulness law-enforcement-witnesses lay-opinion-testimony personal-perception usurping-jury-role Whether the personal perception and helpfulness requirements of Rule 701 are satisfied where the government's law enforcement witnesses provide lay op…
19-8415 Arthur Stanley v. United States Second Circuit 2020-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-relevance federal-rules-of-evidence gang-related-crime relevant-evidence rico-statute rule-401 standing statutory-interpretation Where the Government introduced a cache of weapons found four years before the alleged crime, simply because gang graffiti was found nearby, should ce…
19-8184 William Francis Walsh, IV v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-04-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-2252 criminal-procedure evidence-presentation federal-rules-of-evidence ninth-circuit-interpretation old-chief-precedent old-chief-v-united-states prejudicial-material rule-403 stipulation Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's Rule 403 claim, based on the district court's having abused its discretion by rejecting his proffe…
19-8020 Walter Freeman Jordan, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting criminal-procedure evidence-admission federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-circuit harmless-error hearsay hearsay-evidence standard-of-review Did the admission of the unrefuted inadmissible hearsay evidence constitute harmful error
19-7802 Fernando Ramirez Noria v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP alienage confrontation-clause crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington essential-element federal-rules-of-evidence Hearsay non-testifying-agents sixth-amendment Did the admission of the non-testifying agents' reports of their interviews of the defendant to prove alienage, an essential element of the offense, v…
19-7737 Charles Wolfe v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP advice-of-counsel compliance-officer controlled-substance-analogue controlled-substance-analogue-act controlled-substance-analogue-enforcement-act criminal-defense fair-notice federal-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence-403 industry-expert mens-rea statutory-interpretation vagueness When the 'advice of counsel' is an industry expert on the CSA and the Analogue Act, and was the petitioner's compliance officer, how can that defense …
19-7599 Tracey Smith-Kilpatrick v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP business-records confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington evidence-rule federal-rule-of-evidence-803(6) federal-rules-of-evidence government-use hearsay hearsay-exception record-reliability sixth-circuit testimonial-statement testimonial-statements Whether business records qualify as inadmissible hearsay
19-7539 Shamir Kane v. United States Third Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-indictment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-joinder federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence hobbs-act joinder severance witness-tampering Did the Court of Appeals err in upholding the District Court's joinder of counts related to one Hobbs Act robbery and witness tampering with unrelated…
19-7235 Trevon Gross v. United States Second Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP daubert due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay prosecutorial-discretion Should the Government be able to convert an expert witness into a summary witness?
19-7208 Gbenga Benson Ogundele v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP chapman-standard confrontation-clause due-process evidence fair-trial federal-rule-of-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence government-evidence sixth-amendment Whether voluminous amounts of substantive evidence containing prejudicial opinions of government agents held to be erroneously admitted under Federal …
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…
19-7149 Guillermo Herrera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility circuit-split daubert-standard daubert-v-merrell-dow expert-testimony eyewitness-identification federal-rules-of-evidence jury-instructions scientific-evidence Whether expert testimony on eyewitness identification should be treated differently than other expert testimony
19-6819 Frankie Ovies v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-evidence cell-phones circuit-split criminal-procedure digital-evidence digital-forensics expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence forensic-technology lay-testimony Whether using Cellebrite technology to download forensic digital evidence from a cell phone requires specialized or technical knowledge so that the ev…
19-691 Arthur Lawton Clark v. Georgia Georgia 2019-12-02 Denied Response Waived 404b-evidence circuit-court-split circuit-split d.c.-circuit-precedent due-process evidence-rule federal-rules-of-evidence georgia-supreme-court intrinsic-evidence intrinsic-evidence-rule prior-bad-act-evidence prior-bad-acts Were petitioner's due process rights violated by the Supreme Court of Georgia's overly broad application of the 'intrinsic evidence' rule?
19-6668 Andrew J. J. Wolf, et al. v. Idaho Board of Correction, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure completeness-doctrine federal-rules-of-evidence motion-to-stay ninth-circuit rule-106 summary-judgment trial-record Did the Ninth Circuit err in failing to rule on whether the district court abused its discretion in denying Petitioner's Motion to Stay the Second Sum…
19-6509 William Gaudet v. United States First Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2423(a) appeals-court appellate-review conviction criminal-sentencing district-court evidence-exclusion evidence-rule-403 federal-rules-of-evidence federal-sentencing-guidelines judgment-of-acquittal motion-in-limine prior-testimony sentencing standard-of-review whether-the-appeals-court-erred-in-upholding-the-d Whether the appeals court erred in upholding the district court's denial of the petitioner's motion in limine
19-394 Sergio Mejia-Duarte v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process extradition-treaty fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence fre-403 fre-404(b) hearsay-evidence international-extradition international-law treaty unrelated-murder Whether a crucial mandate of the international extradition treaty was violated
19-5781 Yong S. Cha, aka Edward Cha v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-testing criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-waiver federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence plea-bargaining proffer-statements prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment When the Government may use a defendant's statements from plea negotiations to rebut the defense at trial
19-5689 Benjamin Oshea Calhoun v. Tony Villa, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-procedure-12b6 civil-rights due-process false-statements federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-recusal judicial-supervision legal-authority motion-to-dismiss probable-cause standing warrantless-arrest Whether the Appellant court's ruling to uphold the District Court's order which granted defendants' motions to dismiss conflicts with the Supreme Cour…
19-5553 Angela Roy v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied IFP admissibility character-evidence circuit-split evidence-rule federal-rules federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-exception limits standards Whether the widely criticized 'inextricably intertwined' or 'intrinsic evidence' family of exceptions to Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) lack meaningf…
19-5550 Jackie Duncan v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-circuit abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-vagueness due-process evidence-admissibility federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-discretion procedural-error rule-403 rule-404(b) rule-404b standard-of-review Whether the 10th Circuit erred in ruling the Western District of Oklahoma didn't abuse their discretion?
19-5437 Ekaterini Alexopoulos v. Steven Goldsmith, P.A., et al. Florida 2019-08-02 Denied IFP district-court-error duty-to-control duty-to-control-third-person ethics-violation expert-witness federal-rules-of-evidence legal-malpractice rule-702 special-relation standard-of-care Whether the District Court erred in disallowing plaintiff's expert witness testimony regarding ethics violations and its irrelevance to this case whic…
18-9600 Patricia Diane Smith Sledge v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence-rules evidentiary-ruling federal-rules-of-evidence procedural-error sufficiency-of-evidence summary-evidence witness-tampering Did the district court prejudicially err when admitting Exhibit 1 as a summary pursuant to Fed Rules of Evidence, rule 1006?
18-9534 Femi Alexander Mewase v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553a confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-jury-selection due-process federal-rules-of-evidence jury-selection sentencing Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming the improper removal of Juror 20
18-1482 Semyya Lanise Cunningham v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied circumstantial-guarantees circumstantial-guarantees-of-trustworthiness credibility credibility-of-witnesses district-court district-court-discretion evidence-law evidence-rule-807 federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay-exception hearsay-rule judicial-discretion residual-hearsay-exception rule-807 trustworthiness witness-credibility Whether a finding of 'circumstantial guarantees of trustworthiness' may be premised on a district court's belief in the truth of the hearsay statement…
18-9315 Casey Peebles v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-circuit 8th-circuit circuit-conflict circuit-split codefendant-testimony criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence newly-discovered-evidence rule-33 Should a district court automatically exclude exculpatory testimony from a non-testifying codefendant as not newly discovered evidence or should that …
18-9077 Cecelia D. Walton v. North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Disability Determination Services Fourth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied IFP admissibility civil-rights eeoc eeoc-determination eeoc-reasonable-cause-determination employment-discrimination federal-rules-of-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence-403 pretext retaliation summary-judgment title-vii workplace-discrimination With regards to EEOC Reasonable Charge Determinations issued pursuant to the EEOC investigation conducted, is the Reasonable Cause Determination autom…
18-1294 Michael D. Lynch, et ux. v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-12 Denied Response Waived business-records circuit-split due-process equal-protection erie-doctrine federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay hearsay-testimony national-mortgage-settlements summary-judgment supervisory-power Does Federal Rule of Evidence 803(6) authorize hearsay testimony concerning the contents of business records which have not been admitted into evidenc…
18-1262 Corona Regional Medical Center, et al. v. Marlyn Sali, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-02 Dismissed admissibility circuit-split civil-procedure class-certification evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence ninth-circuit precedent rule-23 standards-of-proof Whether the requirements for class certification under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 can be satisfied with inadmissible evidence
18-8600 Tony McLeod v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phones circuit-split criminal-evidence digital-forensics expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence fourth-amendment internet-anonymity lay-testimony mens-rea rule-702 sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether Cellebrite forensic data requires expert testimony
18-8364 James D. Sullivan v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-procedure evidence-rule-414 evidentiary-hearing federal-rules-of-evidence grand-jury plea-agreement plea-withdrawal prosecutorial-discretion rule-104 rule-414 Whether the trial court must determine by a preponderance of evidence that the defendant engaged in child molestation conduct
18-8358 Joel S. Elliott v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure brief-denial certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-discretion jurisdiction merits standing Did the Circuit Court err when it denied in part the appellants Combined Opening Brief and Application for Certificate of Appealability on the merits?
18-7973 Jaime Villa v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery burden-of-proof crime-of-violence criminal-evidence criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment federal-rules-of-evidence jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence Whether there was insufficient evidence to prove Villa guilty beyond a reasonable doubt?
18-7934 Seaun Llwellyn Farthing v. Dara Watson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-rules-of-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense perjury prior-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-burglary witness-testimony Was trial counsel ineffective for failing to prevent prosecutorial misconduct?
18-7675 Eric Hayes v. United States Third Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP abstract-approach circuit-court collateral-appeal constitutional-law crawford-v-washington criminal-appeal daubert-v-merrell-dow double-jeopardy federal-rules-of-evidence illinois-v-vitale sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent whalen-v-united-states Whether the circuit court departed from the established rules of Whalen v. United States and Illinois v. Vitale regarding the double jeopardy clause
18-7525 Delexsia Harris v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure evidence evidence-suppression federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-discretion old-chief-v-united-states prejudicial-evidence prejudicial-information prior-bad-acts rule-403 Should the analysis utilized in Old Chief v. United States control in determining whether prejudicial information should have been excluded in the def…
18-7245 Ronnie Junior Rodriguez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-declaration federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay legal-procedure perjury self-incrimination standing witness-testimony Whether the petitioner's Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination was violated when the government presented hearsay evidence against him at t…
18-820 Teresa Y. Weinacker v. National Loan Acquisitions Company Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence legal-precedent plausibility-standard standing subject-matter-jurisdiction twombly-iqbal Whether lower courts can disregard precedent, the Constitution, and federal rules
18-6965 Lei Yin v. Biogen, Inc., fka Biogen-IDEC First Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-protections discovery discovery-rules due-process federal-court-procedure federal-courts federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-fairness legal-representation pro-se pro-se-rights standing Whether a Pro Se shall share the same right as those represented by lawyers that are protected by United States Constitution?
18-6667 Khaled Elbeblawy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confession criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence impeachment impeachment-use-waiver medicare-fraud plea-agreement plea-bargaining rule-11 substantive-evidence united-states-v-mezzanatto Does the impeachment-use waiver doctrine established by the Court in United States v. Mezzanatto, 513 U.S. 196, permit the government to introduce in …
18-6618 Jessie Jesus Marquez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split constitutional-burden constitutional-law criminal-procedure drug-case evidence-sufficiency expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence government-proof recorded-phone-call Are statements made during a recorded phone call, standing alone, sufficient to sustain the Government's constitutional burden of proof in a drug case…
18-520 WeConnect, Incorporated v. Brooks Goplin Seventh Circuit 2018-10-19 Denied appellate-review due-process federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-notice standing sua-sponte unauthenticated-website website-authentication Whether Federal Rules of Evidence 201, 901, and 902 and principles of due process forbid a district court to, sua sponte, take judicial notice of info…
18-6337 Travis W. Williams v. Missouri Missouri 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof child-sex-offense criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-evidence fourteenth-amendment mo-const-art-i-18c presumption-of-innocence propensity-evidence Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause prohibits evidence that the defendant has an unrelated remote prior child sex offense conviction…
18-6265 Samuel Silva v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure criminal-statute evidence evidence-prejudice federal-firearms federal-rule-403 federal-rules-of-evidence felon-in-possession felon-possession firearm-possession jury-instruction jury-instructions prejudice prejudicial-evidence probative-value rule-403 Whether the practice of telling juries in a 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) prosecution that the defendant is a previously-convicted felon should be excluded un…
18-5933 Mary Wilkerson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-doctrine brady-v-maryland due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence juror-dishonesty juror-misconduct kyles-v-whitley materiality post-trial-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct rule-of-evidence Whether, under Brady v. Maryland and Kyles v. Whitley, the courts may consider information that arises after trial in determining the materiality of s…
18-5916 Juan Flores v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility casual-conversation co-conspirator co-conspirator-statement co-conspirator-statements conspiracy conspiracy-evidence criminal-procedure evidence evidentiary-standard federal-rule-of-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence furtherance-of-conspiracy hearsay-exception Whether the District Court and Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in ruling that a statement made during a casual conversation between co-conspirat…
18-5747 Javier Amador-Flores v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidence-law expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement lay-opinion lay-opinion-testimony lay-testimony specialized-knowledge witness-testimony When a law-enforcement agent expressly compares the events in a case to what is typical in other cases he has investigated, is his opinion based on 's…
18-5717 Anousone Savanh v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-expert due-process expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence ninth-circuit-review right-to-present-defense May a court exclude a defense expert in a criminal case for failing to possess qualifications that Federal Rule of Evidence 702 does not require, the …
18-5653 Pamela Lynn Bravebull v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP cross-examination due-process evidence-rules expert-witness fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment sixth-amendment structural-error venireperson Whether the prosecutor's elicitation of evidence through a colloquy with a venireperson violated the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to cross-examin…
18-5639 Daniel Castleman, aka Chingachgook v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP best-evidence-rule brady-violation confrontation-clause documentary-evidence due-process evidence evidence-certification federal-rules-of-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct Did the government commit prosecutorial misconduct and was counsel ineffective for failing to object or move to exclude GX-DC-2
18-5605 Robert S. Beyer, II v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility appellate-procedure bad-character-evidence character-evidence criminal-procedure de-novo-review due-process evidence-rules federal-rules-of-evidence presumption-of-admissibility rule-403 rule-404 sentencing-guidelines victim-vulnerability Do Fed R. Evid. Rules 403 and 404 create a presumption favoring admissibility of bad character evidence?
18-5438 Ulriste Tulin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence-reliability federal-rules-of-evidence kidnapping new-trial out-of-court-identification suggestive-procedure witness-identification Is an out-of-court identification of a defendant unduly suggestive and unreliable?
18-5407 Mladen Mitrovic v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay right-to-present-defense standing statutory-interpretation witness-unavailability Whether the district court erred in excluding exculpatory witness statements under the Confrontation Clause and Federal Rule of Evidence 807 despite t…
18-5394 Casey Peebles v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP coconspirator-statements confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rule fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay hearsay-exception sixth-amendment Whether Inadi and Bourjaily adequately protect an accused's Fifth Amendment due process right to a fair trial and his Sixth Amendment right to confron…
18-5286 Odere Suleitopa v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-conflict circuit-split civil-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rule-of-evidence-701 federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement law-enforcement-officer-testimony law-enforcement-testimony lay-witness-testimony opinion-testimony personal-knowledge personal-knowledge-requirement witness-testimony Whether Rule 701's personal knowledge' requirement permits law enforcement officers to offer lay opinion testimony regarding an investigation when the…
18-5253 Dennis DeCiancio v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure disclosure-duty due-process duty-to-disclose evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence free-speech materiality prior-convictions rule-10b-5 securities securities-fraud Whether evidence of unrelated prior convictions is admissible in securities fraud cases as direct proof of a fraud under Rule 10b-5, even though there…