| 24-6358 |
James David Watwood v. David Newcomer, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compulsory-process confidential-records due-process government-witness impeachment-evidence sixth-amendment |
Is a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to Compulsory Process or Fourteenth Amendment right to due process violated when access to impeaching … |
| 23-6175 |
Phillip A. Kenner v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence-standard government-witness napue-standard napue-v-illinois perjury prosecutorial-misconduct witness-perjury |
What evidentiary showing is required, under Napue v. Illinois, 360 U.S. 264 (1959), to establish that a prosecution witness has offered false testimon… |
| 23-5677 |
Rodtravion Woods v. Brian Cates, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights credibility credibility-challenge effective-assistance-of-counsel government-witness habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance prejudice sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
Was petitioner prejudicially denied his constitutional right to the effective assistance of counsel |
| 23-5644 |
Robert Timothy Blake v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
coa-mandate constitutional-rights due-process government-witness ineffective-assistance judicial-review plea-bargain record-evidence reversible-error strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
| 22-6885 |
Juan Martinez Pedraza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
which provides that the government has a duty to cross-examination due-process false-testimony fifth-amendment government-witness napue-v-illinois perjury prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's holding that false testimony presented by a government witness at trial that is elicited by the defense on cross-examinati… |
| 22-158 |
Jeremiah D. Edwards v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-08-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
courtroom-conduct due-process fair-trial government-witness judicial-discretion judicial-procedure jury-consideration legal-standard witness-behavior |
Is a Government witness' inappropriate behavior in the courtroom gallery an improper consideration for a juror? |
| 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… |
| 21-20 |
Jack Albert Chappell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-disclosure evidence-handling fair-trial government-witness prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony |
Whether prosecutorial misconduct and mishandling of evidence constitutes a Brady violation when the government failed to disclose critical information… |
| 20-7418 |
Javon Joshua Jennings v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-witness obstruction-of-justice witness-tampering |
Can the appellant be charged with tampering with a government witness? |
| 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… |
| 18-9132 |
Earlie Dickerson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure government-witness government-witnesses motion-for-new-trial newly-discovered-evidence perjury trial-motion witness-credibility witness-testimony |
Whether new evidence that Government witnesses provided untruthful statements during a trial can ever satisfy the requirements for a motion for new ba… |
| 18-6273 |
Antoine Davis v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-exclusion fair-trial fifth-amendment government-witness ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error sixth-amendment |
Whether the Lower Court Misapprehended its Abuse of discretion when the lower court excluded evidence of the Government witness, which evidence was pu… |
| 18-237 |
Gary Thomas and Felix Parrilla v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
6th-amendment civil-procedure conspiracy-venue constitutional constitutional-venue cooperating-witness criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure government-witness manufactured-venue prosecutorial-discretion sixth-amendment venue venue-determination venue-manipulation venue-provisions witness-cooperation |
Whether it is permissible under the venue provisions of the U.S. Constitution Article III, § 2, cl. 3; the Sixth Amendment; and Federal Rules of Crimi… |
| 18-143 |
Sandra Lee Bart v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review conspiracy conspiracy-conviction due-process evidence evidentiary-hearing fair-trial government-witness juror-misconduct jury-misconduct precedent sixth-amendment substantial-evidence |
Did the Eighth Circuit fail to follow its own precedent and rule contrary to other Appellate Circuits and the United States Supreme Court when it appr… |