forensic-testimony
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-6134 | Joshua Idlefonso Villalobos v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-review expert-evidence forensic-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prejudice-standard | Whether the Ninth Circuit's conclusion that the state court reasonably applied Supreme Court precedents in finding a lack of prejudice when damning fo… |
| 24-5706 | Paul Gary Wallace v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ballistics-evidence criminal-procedure due-process forensic-testimony scientific-reliability toolmark-identification | Whether a firearms examiner's conclusive testimony about ballistics matching violates a defendant's due process rights when such evidence is inherentl… |
| 23-7150 | Elana Gordon v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2024-04-05 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial expert-testimony expert-witness forensic-evidence forensic-testimony right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel | Whether the Confrontation Clause permits the prosecution to present testimony by a substitute forensic expert conveying testimonial statements of a no… |
| 22-7368 | Parnell R. May v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2023-04-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence brady-violation due-process forensic-testimony new-scientific-evidence reasonable-doubt | Whether the new scientific evidence of Parnell May's actual innocence of causing the death of Marvin Meeks is sufficient to establish that no reasonab… |
| 18-8111 | Rossahn Black v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bullcoming confrontation confrontation-clause evidence-admissibility expert-witness forensic-evidence forensic-testimony melendez-diaz melendez-diaz-precedent ninth-circuit-interpretation sixth-amendment testimony | Whether this Court's decision in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts and Bullcoming v. New Mexico created a bright line rule excluding the testimony of an … |