forensic-science

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23A566 Areli Escobar v. Texas Texas 2023-12-19 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process forensic-science scientific-reliability Whether the use of scientifically unreliable forensic DNA evidence that was concededly false and misleading violates a criminal defendant's constituti…
23-6276 Danny Hill v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-12-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP aedpa bitemark-evidence constitutional-challenge federal-constitutional-rights forensic-science habeas-corpus judicial-resources newly-ripened-claims second-or-successive second-or-successive-petition Is a habeas petition 'second or successive' when the factual predicate giving rise to the petitioner's claim occurs long after the petitioner filed hi…
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…
18-564 Rosemary L. Decosimo v. Tennessee Tennessee 2018-10-31 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment forensic-science fourteenth-amendment impartiality law-enforcement sixth-amendment standing Whether the right to a fair trial and due process were violated by a Tennessee law awarding the state forensic lab $250 per conviction-related test