government-informant

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-6588 Aaron Ramirez Espinoza v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-conspirator conspiracy criminal-evidence criminal-law due-process evidence government-informant sufficiency-of-evidence testimony witness-testimony Whether a government informant and co-conspirators testimony of another's involvement in the conspiracy is sufficient evidence to sustain a conviction…
23-6353 Robert John Virnig v. Minnesota Minnesota 2023-12-26 Denied IFP 4th-amendment agency exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment government-informant home-office probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search Did the District Court err in ruling that the government informant was not acting as an agent of the government when, without a warrant or an exceptio…
22-6872 Gustavo Guzman v. California California 2023-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conduct fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence government-informant home-surveillance reasonable-suspicion warrantless-entry Whether the Fourth Amendment permits a government informant's warrantless entry into a home to monitor, transmit, or record statements without reasona…
20-5038 Reza Olangian v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP credibility due-process fair-trial government-informant government-witness trial-procedure truthfulness witness-availability witness-credibility witness-testimony Is a defendant deprived of a fair trial when government witnesses are invited to comment on his credibility and candor, and when he in turn is asked t…
18-7886 Akeen Ocean v. United States First Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment criminal-procedure deliberate-elicitation government-informant informant-testimony massiah-doctrine massiah-v-united-states post-indictment-rights right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does 'deliberate elicitation' for purposes of Massiah v. United States occur only in cases where the government has expressly directed its informant t…
18-5349 Tyron Young v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-right cross-examination due-process government-informant hearsay out-of-court-allegations reliability sentencing sentencing-hearing sixth-amendment unsworn-testimony Whether the Sixth Amendment right to confront and cross-examine adverse witnesses applies at a sentencing hearing where the court bases the sentence o…