government-burden
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-7521 | Anthony D. Williams v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-06-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process government-burden revocation-hearing supervised-release witness-absence | Whether Mr. Williams' due process rights were satisfied when the government failed to show good cause for a witness's absence from a supervised releas… |
| 21-1297 | Clare Therese Grady, Carmen Trotta, and Martha Hennessy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-03-25 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-prosecution free-exercise government-burden government-burden-of-proof least-restrictive-means prosecution religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act rfra sincerely-held-beliefs | Whether the Religious Freedom Restoration Act imposes a burden on the government to demonstrate that it has actually considered and rejected the effic… | |
| 21-6132 | Shelton Marbury v. United States | District of Columbia | 2021-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process external-influence government-burden jury jury-influence presumption-of-prejudice sixth-amendment | Whether under the Sixth Amendment, once a defendant has presented evidence that an external influence has reached his jury, a presumption of prejudice… |
| 20-702 | David Stiles, Jr. v. Texas | Texas | 2020-11-20 | Denied | arrest-to-trial-delay barker-v-wingo constitutional-rights doggett-v-united-states due-process government-burden presumption-of-prejudice presumptive-prejudice sixth-amendment speedy-trial | Whether a defendant is required to demonstrate prejudice on a speedy-trial-claim involving a presumptively-prejudicial-delay | |
| 20-5345 | Clarence Taylor v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law confrontation confrontation-right due-process government-burden hearsay revocation-proceeding testimonial-evidence witness-hearsay witness-testimony | Whether due process requires the government to make an affirmative showing that a witness is afraid to testify before relying on testimonial hearsay a… |
| 19-1091 | Steve Ray Evans v. Sandy City, Utah, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2020-03-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | expressive-conduct first-amendment free-speech government-burden government-regulation less-restrictive-alternatives public-forum roadway-medians speech-restriction traffic-safety | Whether a government may ban expressive conduct without first trying to advance its interests using less speech-restrictive measures |
| 19-7332 | Brian Dean King, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-production burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-objection due-process evidence government-burden pre-sentence-report sentencing | Does the defendant bear the burden of production to rebut information found in a pre-sentence report after objecting to that information, or instead, … |
| 19-6634 | Kathryn Woodin Markle v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-production burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process evidence government-burden pre-sentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-objection | Does the defendant bear the burden of production to rebut information found in a pre-sentence report after objecting to that information, or instead, … |
| 19-5115 | Cordero Robert Seals v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof burrage burrage-test but-for-causation causation-standard causation-test circuit-split contributing-causation contributing-cause eighth-circuit government-burden judicial-interpretation legal-standard seventh-circuit | Whether the Eighth Circuit misinterpreted the but-for causation test in light of the government's burden, and inappropriately applied the contributing… |
| 18-9003 | Ariel Brown v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | and whether false allegations in a Presentence In burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process government-burden presentence-report sentencing sentencing-enhancement weapons-enhancement weapons-possession | When a defendant submits a sworn Declaration denying key elements of a weapons enhancement, can the defendant be enhanced without the Government meeti… |
| 18-583 | Kenneth Mayle v. United States, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2018-11-05 | Denied | Response Waived | compelled-speech compelling-governmental-interest equal-protection free-exercise free-speech government-burden least-restrictive-means minority-rights religious-beliefs religious-freedom-restoration-act sincerely-held-religious-beliefs standing statutory-interpretation | Whether the lower court's ruling violates the Supreme Court's precedents by improperly substituting its own view that carrying currency bearing a reli… |