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25A705 Charles Albert Massey v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2025-12-17 Application confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination hearsay-evidence preliminary-hearing sixth-amendment Whether the admission of a preliminary hearing testimony of a deceased witness, who was unavailable for cross-examination on a subsequently added crim…
25-6168 Carl Rose v. United States Third Circuit 2025-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay-evidence revocation-hearing supervised-release Whether the Due Process Clause and Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32.1(b)(2)(C) require a district court to conduct an on-the-record balancing of …
25-288 Vinaykumar Patel v. United States Third Circuit 2025-09-11 Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment hearsay-evidence law-enforcement-testimony sixth-amendment Whether the introduction of speculative lay opinion by a law enforcement officer violates the petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights and eviden…
25-5171 Reginald Hitchcock v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing hearsay-evidence sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in denying an evidentiary hearing when evidence was presented showing the hearsay witness contradicted allegations swo…
25-5048 Jeremy Wayne Holt v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-07-08 Denied IFP criminal-procedure discovery-violation due-process hearsay-evidence sixth-amendment speedy-trial Does a seven-year delay in bringing a sexual assault case to trial trigger a presumption of prejudice under Doggett v. United States, and does the pre…
24-7329 Nicco-Kawon Pledger v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2025-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process expert-testimony hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance jury-instructions trial-procedure Whether counsel's failure to challenge the admissibility of expert testimony and hearsay evidence prejudicially impacted the defendant's right to a fa…
24-7054 Oscar J. Martinez-Hernandez v. United States First Circuit 2025-04-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split confrontation-clause due-process federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay-evidence sixth-amendment Whether uncorroborated hearsay under Federal Rule of Evidence 801(d)(2)(E) without independent proof of conspiracy violates the Sixth Amendment's Conf…
24-6990 Abdul Kilgore v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause hearsay-evidence procedural-reasonableness sentencing sixth-amendment supervised-release Whether the district court's reliance on hearsay evidence in a supervised release revocation proceeding violated the petitioner's Confrontation Clause…
24-6877 Amanda M. v. Illinois Illinois 2025-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof child-custody constitutional-rights due-process hearsay-evidence parental-rights Can a state terminate a parent's constitutional right to raise her child based solely on hearsay evidence, where the state's burden of proof at a fitn…
24-6849 Terrance Deandre Ellison v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP cross-examination evidentiary-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay-evidence recent-fabrication witness-credibility Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 801(d)(1)(B)(i) permits introduction of hearsay to rebut a charge of recent fabrication when statements were made wit…
24-6029 Glenna Duram v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-11-25 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance trial-procedure Whether the trial court violated constitutional due process by admitting unfairly prejudicial hearsay evidence from an internet website and whether de…
24-5998 Carlos Tonyo Cabrera v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2024-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process hearsay-evidence judicial-error prior-convictions procedural-due-process sentencing-scoresheet Whether a court violated a petitioner's due process rights by imposing life sentences based on an erroneous scoresheet using unsubstantiated prior con…
24-5411 Mario Chavez v. Carlos Lazarin, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process hearsay-evidence sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment confrontation rights are violated when a court admits hearsay evidence through a surrogate witness in v…
23-7548 In Re Kinley MacDonald 2024-05-23 Dismissed IFP child-custody child-welfare civil-rights due-process family-law hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-misconduct jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge parental-rights state-statute Can a trial court open and remove children in a 'protective custody' case based solely on hearsay accusations prohibited by state statute and in absen…
23-7549 In Re Kinley MacDonald 2024-05-23 Dismissed IFP child-custody child-welfare due-process family-rights hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction parental-rights standard-of-review state-court-procedure Whether a state court can remove children from a parent's custody based solely on hearsay allegations prohibited by state statute, in the absence of j…
23-1181 Gail M. Ritchey v. Ohio Ohio 2024-05-01 Denied Amici (1) autopsy-report confrontation-clause criminal-investigation criminal-procedure evidence hearsay-evidence medical-examiner medical-examiner-testimony sixth-amendment Does the admission of an autopsy report and testimony from a doctor who neither participated in the autopsy nor prepared the report violate the Sixth …
23-7326 Erik Johnson v. Patrick Griffin Second Circuit 2024-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence hearsay hearsay-evidence missing-witness missing-witness-instruction testimonial-statement Whether the admission into evidence of hearsay statements violated petitioner's Confrontation Clause rights
23-7314 S. C. v. Vermont Vermont 2024-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-welfare clear-and-convincing due-process fourteenth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence parental-rights parental-unfitness santosky-standard santosky-v-kramer Whether Vermont's law allowing courts to terminate parental rights based on hearsay violates the Fourteenth Amendment
23A879 C. B., Father v. Vermont Department for Children and Families Vermont 2024-04-03 Presumed Complete child-witnesses due-process hearsay-evidence parental-rights procedural-safeguards termination-of-rights Whether the Due Process Clause requires states to provide parents with an opportunity to challenge hearsay evidence and cross-examine witnesses before…
23A847 Richard Alan Costanzo v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-03-19 Presumed Complete abuse-of-discretion confrontation-rights criminal-procedure federal-rule hearsay-evidence probation-revocation Whether a district court's admission of hearsay evidence in a probation revocation hearing violates a defendant's confrontation rights under Federal R…
23-924 John Anthony Castro v. Adrian Fontes, Arizona Secretary of State, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied Response Waived arizona-ballot article-iii article-iii-standing ballot-access campaign-expenses hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-discretion motion-to-amend presidential-candidate standing Does an Arizona ballot-placed Republican Presidential Candidate lack Article III standing if a lower court determines he is not 'genuinely' competing …
23-6474 Courtney Rose Desjarlais v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Question not identified
23A612 Thurmond Allen v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-01-03 Presumed Complete firearm-possession fourth-amendment hearsay-evidence probable-cause search-warrant warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the warrantless search of an apartment based on a neighbor's hearsay statement about an overheard gun reference
23-505 Garrett A. Arrowood v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-14 Denied Response Waived appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause crawford-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law habeas-corpus hearsay-evidence whether-the-record-supports-the-court's-conclusion-that-the-state-court-hearing-regarding-the-inadmissible-hearsay-(crawford-violation)-did-not-violat…
23-5983 Eric Spencer v. United States Second Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review court-procedure de-novo-review district-court evidence evidence-rules hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-discretion standard-of-review Should the Court of Appeals apply an abuse of discretion standard or engage in de novo review when reviewing a district court's ruling to admit hearsa…
23A358 Ohio v. William Johnson Ohio 2023-10-20 Presumed Complete 911-call confrontation-clause domestic-violence emergency-exception hearsay-evidence testimonial-statement Whether a 911 call describing a past domestic violence incident constitutes a 'testimonial statement' under the Confrontation Clause when the caller i…
23-5536 Kinley MacDonald v. Maine First Circuit 2023-09-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP child-protection child-welfare civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process family-law hearsay-evidence judicial-discretion standing Whether a state trial court can open a child protection case based solely on hearsay accusations prohibited by state statute, set bail/bond conditions…
23-5509 Vincent D. White, Jr. v. Michael Phillips, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP adverse-effect concurrent-conflict conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance 23-5508" mickens-standard post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment state-court trial-counsel Whether a state court's denial of post-conviction Whether a criminal-defense attorney, under indictment on charges of rape, kidnapping, and sexual assault, has a conflict of interest when simultaneous…
23-5508 In Re Kinley MacDonald 2023-09-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP child-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law hearsay-evidence judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief standing state-court-review systemic-judicial-misconduct Can a family court open and remove children in protective custody based solely on hearsay accusations prohibited by state statute, in secret and in ab…
23-5366 Ricky Alan Deephouse v. Wyoming Wyoming 2023-08-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process hearsay-evidence illegal-opinion-issuance judicial-review rule-of-law single-justice-opinion state-court-procedure state-power-abuse state-supreme-court wyoming-rules-of-evidence Did the state supreme court abuse/misuse its power, fail to follow the rule of law, enter a valid affirming of sentence and conviction by only one jus…
23-5184 Kinley MacDonald v. Lea-Anne Sutton, Judge, District Court of Maine, et al. First Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law family-rights hearsay-evidence judicial-misconduct jurisdiction standing Can a final court open and remove children in protective custody case based solely on hearsay evidence prohibited by state statute in secret and in ab…
22-1139 Victor Santana v. Texas Texas 2023-05-23 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) bolstering-evidence criminal-appeal criminal-procedure hearsay hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prior-bad-act-evidence prior-bad-acts trial-counsel Did the Court of Criminal Appeals err in finding that trial counsel's errors did not amount to ineffective-assistance-of-counsel?
22-6166 Raymond Mendez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-review criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-procedure sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervisory-power Whether the Ninth Circuit has sanctioned serial departures by the district court from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings
22-5775 William Robert Bramscher v. California California 2022-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-rights conviction criminal-appeal first-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence presumption-of-innocence right-to-counsel Whether the First Amendment protects the right to advocate that one is innocent of any charged or convicted crime?
22-5692 Kyle Brandon Rocha v. West Virginia West Virginia 2022-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP beyond-a-reasonable-doubt confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-hearing standard-of-proof Is it a violation of a defendant's rights to due process of law and confrontation for a Court to make a finding in a sentencing hearing based solely o…
22-5469 Jeffrey Beard, II v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination hearsay hearsay-evidence obstruction-of-justice sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the defendant should have the right to confront a witness whose testimony is offered to enhance the sentencing guidelines sentence for conduct…
21-7613 James Edward Williams v. Illinois Illinois 2022-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence hearsay hearsay-evidence jury-instructions prior-bad-acts propensity Whether the jury can be instructed to consider hearsay evidence and propensity evidence to commit murder despite prior rulings on hearsay and prior ba…
21-1264 Larry Klayman v. Judicial Watch, Inc., et al. District of Columbia 2022-03-18 Denied Response Waived circuit-split consumer-confusion hearsay-evidence lanham-act likelihood-of-confusion non-disparagement precedent trademark-infringement trademark-law Did the US. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit err by failing to apply the 'appreciable number of consumers' standard to the 'likel…
21-6672 Trevor Jim Bishop v. California California 2021-12-20 Denied IFP due-process evidence-code-section-1109 federal-rule-of-evidence-404(b) hearsay hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance other-acts-evidence procedural-error prosecutorial-misconduct trial-counsel Whether the majority opinion erred not only as to the substantive admissibility of the other acts evidence, but whether the majority also erred proced…
21-6635 Larry Alonzo Gibbs, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence relevance reliability witness-testimony Does the State of Florida violate a defendant's right to confront witnesses when they allow the State to introduce evidence that a minor vt suffered f…
21-6375 Thomas Dudney v. Jeff Macomber, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-11-22 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause due-process exculpatory-evidence hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel perjury sixth-amendment Whether the Court of Appeals improperly denied a Certificate of Appealability
21-6238 Donald Broadnax v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied IFP AEDPA aedpa-deference due-process federal-habeas-corpus hearsay hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-relief state-evidentiary-rules state-postconviction-proceedings Does AEDPA deference apply to state postconviction evidentiary rules?
21-6163 Gerard M. Lynch v. New York State Justice Center for the Protection of People With Special Needs New York 2021-11-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-adjudication confrontation-clause confrontation-rights credibility-of-witnesses due-process hearsay-evidence occupational-debarment state-agency worker-rights Does the routine use of uncorroborated hearsay evidence to adjudicate accusations of wrongdoing against healthcare workers violate due process?
21-6173 Rotimi Salu v. New York State Justice Center for the Protection of People With Special Needs New York 2021-11-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-adjudication administrative-law confrontation confrontation-rights credibility due-process employment-law hearsay hearsay-evidence witness-credibility Does it violate due process of law for a state agency to routinely adjudicate accusations of wrongdoing on hearsay evidence alone, denying the accused…
21-6090 Olry Maurival v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy crawford-confrontation criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency false-tax-return false-tax-returns hearsay-evidence sufficiency-of-evidence tax-fraud Whether the verdict of guilt was supported by sufficient evidence
21-5941 Angela Michelle Morelli v. Joshua B. Hyman, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights domestic-violence due-process federal-jurisdiction hearsay-evidence life-liberty-property procedural-hearing victim-protection Why are Women's Constitutional Rights being violated under the 14th Amendment, for both procedural Due Process and Life, Liberty and Property?
21-5366 Abram K. Sollman v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hearsay-evidence witness-testimony whether-the-nebraska-courts-reliance-on-witness-statements-induced-erroneous-or-prejudicial-hearsay-evidence
21-21 Caroline Ross v. Judson Independent School District Fifth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied administrative-law cross-examination due-process fourteenth-amendment hearsay-evidence non-renewal procedural-rules school-board school-board-non-renewal state-law-violation Due-process-violation
20-8416 Raul Ramos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process hearsay-evidence sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment united-states-v-haymond Whether the district court's reliance on hearsay evidence to impose a guideline sentence of life violates Ramos's right to confront and cross-examine …
20-8266 Eric Lucas v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance jury-trial prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner's Constitutional Rights Under The 5th, 6th And 14th Amendments Were Violated
20-8151 Marcus D. Williams v. California California 2021-05-26 Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility forensic-evidence forensic-testing hearsay hearsay-evidence testimonial-statement testimonial-statements What degree of formality is necessary before hearsay statements contained within a forensic testing report which connect an accused to the testing res…
20-1565 Michael Ryan Mitchan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines Should defendants in criminal cases be permitted to confront witnesses against them at sentencing when their uncorroborated hearsay statements are sol…
20-7556 Terrence A. McKnight v. R. Johnson, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus harmless-error hearsay-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct standards-of-review Did the California Court of Appeal unreasonably determine that the established prosecutorial misconduct was harmless?
20-7531 Baidehi L. Mukherjee v. The Childrens Mercy Hospital Eighth Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied IFP after-acquired-evidence appellate-review civil-procedure due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection hearsay-evidence jury-instructions standard-of-review summary-judgment Should the violation of Standard of Review for Summary Judgment be allowed to stand uncorrected?
20-7443 Rotimi Salu, et al. v. Denise Miranda, et al. Second Circuit 2021-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment administrative-procedure administrative-review confrontation-clause due-process employment-termination healthcare-workers hearsay-evidence state-agency state-agency-adjudication Due-process-rights-of-healthcare-workers
20-6856 Lavon Oden v. Neil Turner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause cross-examination effective-assistance-of-counsel hearsay hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Was LaVon Oden's Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses violated?
20-6141 David William Smith v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof confrontation-clause evidence-rule-701 expert-testimony hearsay-evidence law-enforcement-testimony lay-opinion professional-experience rule-701 rule-702 testimonial-hearsay When can law enforcement officers offer lay opinions based on professional experience?
20-5902 Larry Burt Sexton v. Tennessee Tennessee 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence parole-consideration sentencing Whether the trial court erred in admitting hearsay evidence at the sentencing hearing and in finding the petitioner to be a career offender, resulting…
20-5183 Keith Hoglund v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-amendments constitutional-rights due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment harmless-error hearsay-evidence procedural-rights sixth-amendment Whether the lower court(s) violated Keith Hoglund's substantive and procedural due process rights
19-1474 Tyler Herndon v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-07-08 Denied Response Waived collateral-order-doctrine criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-relief hearsay-evidence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's refusal to review the Trial Court's Denial Order on a Petition for Habeas Corpus Relief, in a case where adju…
19-8763 James Delglyn v. Paulino Barros, et al. Wisconsin 2020-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof credit-report credit-reporting debt-verification hearsay-evidence judicial-procedure state-statutes wisconsin-law wisconsin-supreme-court Is it reasonable to demand verification of an alleged debt in the form of a written contract, evidence of a transaction or a sworn statement from a cl…
19-8454 Michael Boykin v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida, Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure cumulative-evidence declaration hearsay-evidence in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance martinez-rule poverty procedural-default redress Whether the petitioner is entitled to proceed in forma pauperis
19-8302 Richard H. Morrison v. Florida Florida 2020-04-19 Denied IFP burden-of-proof due-process habitual-offender hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-notice preponderance-of-evidence prison-release-reoffender sentencing-enhancement Is the state required to prove the defendant qualifies as a PRR by a preponderance of the evidence?
19-8298 David M. Kissi v. United States District Court for the District of Maryland Fourth Circuit 2020-04-18 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fbi fbi-warrant fourth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence miranda-rights search-and-seizure Whether the trial court overlooked evidence that the FBI had Petitioner arrested and searched his home with writs that were inadmissible because they …
19-8020 Walter Freeman Jordan, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP aiding-and-abetting criminal-procedure evidence-admission federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-circuit harmless-error hearsay hearsay-evidence standard-of-review Did the admission of the unrefuted inadmissible hearsay evidence constitute harmful error
19-7511 Frank Deville, et ux. v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. California 2020-01-31 Denied IFP civil-procedure concealing-material-facts conflict-of-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-law fraud-particularity hearsay-evidence judicial-procedure legal-standards liberal-amendment material-facts standing What is the liberal ability to amend a complaint?
19-7309 James Milton Dailey v. Florida Florida 2020-01-15 Denied Amici (5)Relisted (5)IFP capital-punishment chambers-exception chambers-v-mississippi codefendant-confession due-process fifth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence innocence parole third-party-confession Was the Florida Supreme Court's analysis of Chambers v. Mississippi, 410 U.S. 284 (1973), employing a factor-based approach that has been embraced by …
19-7302 Latefah Shampine v. Sarver's Realty, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-and-witnesses forced-drugging forced-medication free-speech hearsay hearsay-evidence involuntary-treatment judicial-misconduct jurisdiction-dispute racial-discrimination standing How could Petitioner retain an attorney when she was forced to plead guilty?
19-6923 Adrian Alaniz v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-violation due-process harmless-error hearsay hearsay-evidence justifiable-homicide manslaughter prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct second-amendment self-defense standard-of-review Whether the conceded admission of gang hearsay evidence in violation of the Confrontation Clause was prejudicial
19-6384 Dieugrand Jacques v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fabricated-evidence false-evidence hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review post-conviction-relief right-to-appeal sex-offender-registration wrongful-conviction Why thousands of men and women like myself in this great country should continue to be kept illegally in prison only because a lawyer presented a fake…
19-394 Sergio Mejia-Duarte v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process extradition-treaty fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence fre-403 fre-404(b) hearsay-evidence international-extradition international-law treaty unrelated-murder Whether a crucial mandate of the international extradition treaty was violated
19-5796 Alfredo Beltran Leyva v. United States District of Columbia 2019-09-03 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP circuit-split confrontation-clause constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review Whether the Court should require de novo review (or at a minimum, review for clear error) of sentencing fact-findings based entirely on uncorroborated…
18-9755 Sammy Redi Araya v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP business-records due-process fourth-circuit-review hearsay hearsay-evidence identification insufficient-evidence perjury perjury-challenge standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming the trial court's failure to investigate and conclusively determine if perjury infected the trial
18-9202 Edilberto Maso Diaz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-conspirator co-conspirator-testimony confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process evidence evidentiary-sufficiency fifth-circuit-review hearsay hearsay-evidence hearsay-statements jury-instructions standard-of-review trial-procedure Did the Fifth Circuit err by affirming the district court admission of hearsay statements made by an unindicted co-conspirator over the objection of A…
18-1275 Xiaohua Huang v. Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Federal Circuit 2019-04-05 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure-fraud-on-the-court civil-rights discovery due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court hearsay-evidence judicial-misconduct patent patent-infringement sanctions standing summary-judgment Whether the district court erred in dismissing the case based on the magistrate judge's fraudulent statements and Huawei's perjured testimony
18-8569 Melvin Bonnell v. Ohio Ohio 2019-03-26 Denied IFP appellate-review capital-punishment dna-evidence dna-testing due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a trial court may deny a DNA application in a capital case based solely on the untested hearsay of the prosecuting attorney and in contraventi…
18-1076 In Re Robert K. Hudnall 2019-02-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction secret-hearing service-of-process standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a State Supreme Court with only appellate jurisdiction can exercise personal jurisdiction without proper service of process, take subject matt…
18-1046 Virginia Callahan, et al. v. Pacific Cycle, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied Response Waived abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-procedure de-novo-review evidence evidence-admissibility evidentiary-ruling hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-discretion standard-of-review Standard-of-review-for-hearsay-rulings
18-7228 Dashawn D. Brown v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency excited-utterance excited-utterances hearsay hearsay-evidence prior-identification residual-hearsay-exception sentencing sentencing-error supervised-release Whether the sentencing court erred in admitting hearsay statements as excited utterances
18-7220 Pashtoon Farooqi v. California California 2019-01-03 Denied IFP bill-of-attainder civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process hearsay-evidence jury-instruction mental-disorder sexually-violent-predator vagueness Does the California version of its Sexually Violent Predators Act (SVPA) violate the precedents of this Court, and is it therefore unconstitutional?
18-246 Mary L. Doherty, et al. v. Allstate Indemnity Company Third Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied anderson-v-liberty-lobby due-process expert-witness expert-witness-reports expert-witness-testimony fifth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence insurance-contract jury-trial mend-the-hold mend-the-hold-doctrine seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether the affirmed Rule 56 summary judgment decision is inconsistent with the standard set forth in Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., and violative o…
18-5646 Syrus Martin v. Georgia Georgia 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-hearsay child-testimony cross-examination evidence evidence-admissibility evidence-law hearsay hearsay-evidence hearsay-exceptions prior-statements statutory-interpretation testifying-witness witness-statements Whether Georgia's child hearsay statutes or O.C.G.A. § 24-8-801 (d) (1) (A) control the permissible use of the prior statements of a testifying child
18-5433 Helen Atkins v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP closing-argument constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-testify sixth-amendment speedy-trial Was the petitioner denied her right to a fair trial and effective assistance of counsel?
18-5266 Michael Ferguson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-guidelines arrest-records bare-arrest-records dismissed-charges due-process evidence-reliability hearsay hearsay-evidence reliability-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment What standard of scrutiny does Due Process require courts to use when evaluating the reliability of evidence courts rely on to impose a sentence?
18-5189 Glenvert Green v. United States Third Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fifth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment victim-impact-statement victim-impact-statements Whether the Sixth and Fifth Amendments provide a criminal defendant the right to cross-examine a government witness who testifies during a sentencing …