hearsay-exception

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25-6550 George Madison Kitchen, IV v. United States Eighth Circuit 2026-01-12 Pending Response WaivedIFP evidence-rule-404b federal-appellate-review hearsay-exception reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-standard traffic-stop 1. WHETHER THE 8TH CIRCUIT ERRED FINDING THAT REASONABLE SUSPICION EXISTED JUSTIFYING THE STOP OF PETITIONER'S VEHICLE AND MISAPPLYING RODRIGUEZ ON WH…
25-6203 Misael Fabian Medina v. United States First Circuit 2025-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review evidence-rule excited-utterance hearsay-exception procedural-fairness reliability-standard Have the federal appellate courts departed too far from the purpose and intent of the excited utterance exception to the hearsay rule, such that the r…
25-5556 Louis Age, Jr. and Ronald Wilson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-09-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP business-record confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence-authentication hearsay-exception Whether the Confrontation Clause permits the prosecution to present an affidavit in lieu of live testimony to authenticate a business record over defe…
25-5517 Joshua Rodriguez v. United States Second Circuit 2025-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review evidence-rule hearsay-exception judicial-interpretation present-sense-impression reliability-standard Have the federal appellate courts departed too far from the purpose and intent of the present-sense impression exception to the hearsay rule, such tha…
25-86 Ashok Arora v. Midland Credit Management, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-07-23 Denied Response Waived business-records circuit-split declarant-testimony federal-rules-evidence hearsay-exception summary-judgment Whether the district court erred in accepting hearsay declarations under FRE 803(6) and 803(7) without producing underlying business records
24-985 Ohio v. Garry Smith Ohio 2025-03-14 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process emergency-doctrine hearsay-exception testimonial-statements Whether statements made to responding officers during emergency medical care are nontestimonial under the Confrontation Clause when lacking investigat…
24-6617 Cedric Dwayne Poore v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2025-02-21 Denied IFP constitutional-right counsel-appointment critical-stage dna-act hearsay-exception post-conviction-procedure Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals ruling on an excited utterance hearsay exception violates the constitutional right to counsel, and whet…
24-6340 Bruce E. Alexander v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP corroborating-circumstances criminal-procedure evidentiary-standard federal-rules-evidence hearsay-exception statement-against-interest Whether FRE 804(b)(3)(B)'s requirement of 'corroborating circumstances' necessitated consideration of the 'totality of circumstances' prior to the 202…
24A623 Bruce E. Alexander v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-12-23 Presumed Complete corroborating-circumstances criminal-procedure evidence-rule-804 exculpatory-statement hearsay-exception unavailable-witness Whether the admission of a codefendant's exculpatory prior statement under Federal Rule of Evidence 804(b)(3) requires a stringent corroborating circu…
24-5602 Raymond Christian v. United States Second Circuit 2024-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-statements criminal-confession federal-evidence-rule hearsay-exception non-testifying-declarant statement-against-penal-interest Does Williamson v. United States permit a lower court to admit collateral statements in a non-testifying declarant's confession as providing 'context'…
24-5394 Nathan Brooks Manuelito v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-prosecution dual-purpose-statements evidence-reliability federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay-exception medical-treatment Whether statements made, in part, to provide evidence for a criminal prosecution can satisfy the hearsay exception in Federal Rule of Evidence 803(4) …
23A972 Benjamin Biancofiori v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-05-01 Presumed Complete confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility hearsay-exception sex-trafficking sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment permits the admission of out-of-court narrative evidence describing a defendant's alleged criminal acts against non-testif…
23-6802 Wally Irizarry-Sisco v. United States First Circuit 2024-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-sex-abuse child-sex-case criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-law excited-utterance hearsay hearsay-exception sixth-amendment Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 803(2) encompasses out-of-court statements that go beyond the exciting event, are elicited by questioning, and are in…
23-6618 Mabior M. Mabior v. Nebraska Nebraska 2024-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review confrontation-clause cross-examination hearsay hearsay-exception ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment testimonial-statement testimonial-statements Is a defendant's right to confrontation under the Sixth Amendment violated when testimonial statements are admitted for the truth of the matters asser…
23-640 Caleb A. C. Smith v. United States Armed Forces 2023-12-14 Denied Response Waived 10th-circuit declarant-memory evidence-rule evidence-rules excited-utterance hearsay-exception memory military-rules-of-evidence statement-admissibility testimonial-evidence unpublished-decision Whether a statement made hours after an alleged assault is admissible as an excited utterance?
23-5199 Duron B. Peoples v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied IFP compulsory-process criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts hearsay-exception ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel murder-conspiracy witness-testimony witness-unavailability Is federal due process violated where a federal court concludes that a petitioner's counsel ineffective claim lacks merit because petitioner did not s…
23-5105 Russell Garvis Griffith, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-07-14 Denied IFP child-abuse circuit-split evidence-rule-803(4) hearsay hearsay-exception household-abuse medical-diagnosis medical-treatment rule-803(4) witness-testimony Whether a party seeking to admit an out-of-court statement pursuant to Rule 803(4) must show that the speaker subjectively knew that the identity of t…
22-7317 Rosa V. v. Ali H. California 2023-04-19 Denied IFP child-abuse civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-law hearsay-exception medical-records out-of-court-statements sixth-amendment Whether the trial court erred in excluding evidence of medical records and statements under the hearsay rule
22-581 Heidi R. Steward, Acting Director, Oregon Department of Corrections v. Frank E. Gable Ninth Circuit 2022-12-22 Denied Relisted (2) actual-innocence chambers-v-mississippi due-process evidence evidence-rule habeas-corpus hearsay hearsay-exception recantation third-party-confession Whether Oregon Evidence Code Rule 804(8)(c) violates the Due Process Clause by excluding a third-party confession that is recanted and inconsistent wi…
22-511 Thomas Dixon v. Texas Texas 2022-12-02 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) confrontation-clause constitutional-error courtroom-closure crawford-doctrine crawford-v-washington due-process hearsay-confession hearsay-exception hemphill-v-new-york recantations sufficiency-of-the-evidence Should Crawford be a one-way street?
22-168 Ryan James Deroo v. Illinois Illinois 2022-08-23 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law due-process evidence evidence-rule ex-post-facto hearsay hearsay-exception medical-records retroactive-modification state-rule Whether a retroactive modification of a state rule of evidence allowing certain medical records to be admitted as admissible hearsay which was previou…
21-7659 John Doe v. United States First Circuit 2022-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review business-records criminal-prosecution hearsay-exception interrogation-statements miranda-rights outsider-source standard-of-review trustworthiness Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's error of admitting the 795-SSA form through the business records exception to the…
21-7427 William Gregory Snow v. Illinois Illinois 2022-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process evidence-rule excited-utterance hearsay hearsay-exception impeachment prior-consistent-statements witness-testimony Whether the Third District Appellate Court of Illinois' ruling unconstitutionally expanded the scope of the excited utterance exception to hearsay as …
21-7051 Demarcus Antwon Chatmon v. Texas Texas 2022-02-03 Denied IFP body-camera body-camera-recording confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-exception police-evidence primary-purpose testimonial-statement Whether the Confrontation Clause permits the admission of accusatory statements found on a police body camera recording without requiring the State to…
21-6919 Kevin Vigil v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure evidence-of-continuous-excitement excited-utterance federal-criminal-jurisdiction federal-evidence-rule federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay-exception indian-country-status indian-law pueblo-lands-act Whether a hearsay statement may be properly admitted as an excited utterance
21-6653 Urban Fermin v. Anthony J. Annucci, Acting Commissioner, New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision Second Circuit 2021-12-17 Denied IFP business-records confrontation-clause criminal-procedure dna-evidence evidence hearsay hearsay-exception sixth-amendment Whether the business record exception to hearsay survives the United States Constitution's Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause
21-5405 George A. Luna v. Anna Valentine, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights confrontation-clause domestic-violence due-process evidentiary-rule federal-jurisdiction forfeiture-by-wrongdoing hearsay-exception pleadings standing witness-unavailability Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted
21-5398 Scott Estes v. United States First Circuit 2021-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process emergency-call evidence hearsay-exception sixth-amendment testimonial-statements Did the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit fail to correctly apply the objective primary purpose test for testimonial statements mad…
20-1663 Matthew D. Norwood v. United States Armed Forces 2021-05-28 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure evidence evidence-rule forensic-interview hearsay hearsay-exception jury-deliberation prior-consistent-statement repetition trial-procedure truth-effect witness-testimony Whether admission of a recorded hearsay statement as a physical exhibit, permitted to be reviewed during deliberations, is a fair application of the e…
20-1132 DeMichael Tyrone Moore and Derrick Darnell Moore v. Tennessee Tennessee 2021-02-19 Denied confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination effective-cross-examination federal-law hearsay-exception memory-loss prior-recorded-statement witness-testimony Whether the Confrontation Clause is violated by admitting a prior recorded statement of a witness who testifies he has no memory of making the stateme…
20-637 Darrell Hemphill v. New York New York 2020-11-10 Judgment Issued Amici (14)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence evidence-law hearsay-exception right-to-confrontation testimonial-hearsay trial-strategy Whether, or under what circumstances, a criminal defendant who opens the door to responsive evidence also forfeits his right to exclude evidence other…
19-7773 James Curtis Denton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavits business-records confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission hearsay-exception sixth-amendment Whether the introduction of unconfronted affidavits establishing the foundation for admission of business records violates the Confrontation Clause of…
19-7720 Lamont Jones v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-circuit-court abuse-of-discretion co-conspirator-hearsay co-conspirator-hearsay-exception criminal-association criminal-history district-court-conviction hearsay-exception mental-health racketeering-conspiracy racketeering-conspiracy-18-usc-1962(d) sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-mental-health-treatment sufficient-evidence uncorroborated-confession Did the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals abuse its discretion in upholding the District Court's conviction?
19-7599 Tracey Smith-Kilpatrick v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP business-records confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington evidence-rule federal-rule-of-evidence-803(6) federal-rules-of-evidence government-use hearsay hearsay-exception record-reliability sixth-circuit testimonial-statement testimonial-statements Whether business records qualify as inadmissible hearsay
19-7376 Alice C. Trappler v. New York New York 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture hearsay hearsay-exception legal-insufficiency sixth-amendment waiver Whether the automatic waiver and permanent forfeiture of legal insufficiency claims due to trial counsel's failure to move to dismiss on those grounds…
19-7218 Oscar Amezcua Cabrera v. California California 2020-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-principles crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington due-process dying-declaration-exception fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hearsay hearsay-exception hearsay-rule prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay whether-dying-declaration-exception-overrides-crawford-v-washington
18-1482 Semyya Lanise Cunningham v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied circumstantial-guarantees circumstantial-guarantees-of-trustworthiness credibility credibility-of-witnesses district-court district-court-discretion evidence-law evidence-rule-807 federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay-exception hearsay-rule judicial-discretion residual-hearsay-exception rule-807 trustworthiness witness-credibility Whether a finding of 'circumstantial guarantees of trustworthiness' may be premised on a district court's belief in the truth of the hearsay statement…
18-1425 Naren Chaganti v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eighth Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied Response Waived binding court-order hearsay hearsay-exception internal-revenue-code internal-revenue-code-162(f) litigation-sanctions parties standing stipulations tax-court-rule tax-court-rule-91-a-e tax-court-stipulations tax-cuts-and-jobs-act tax-cuts-and-jobs-act-2017 Whether stipulations filed under Tax Court Rule 91(a) & (e) are binding on the parties and the Tax Court
18-8894 Robert L. Mayfield v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility co-conspirator co-conspirator-statements co-conspirators confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence evidence-rule hearsay hearsay-exception out-of-court-statements rule-801 rule-801(d)(2)(e) Whether admission of out-of-court statements made by Robert Mayfield's alleged co-conspirators violated the hearsay exception of Rule 801(d)(2)(E)
18-7416 Javier Solis v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied IFP confrontation-clause crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington hearsay hearsay-exception jury-instructions jury-interpretation police-testimony sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence truth-of-the-matter-asserted Whether 'testimonial' or 'non-testimonial' should be the only factor in deciding whether Crawford's protection should apply
18-6361 Bob Lee Jones v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial harmless-error hearsay hearsay-exception involuntary-intoxication judicial-bias judicial-ethics present-sense-impression specific-intent standard-of-review Whether the District Court's demonstration of bias against the defense impeded the defendant's right to a fair trial
18-6060 James Chavez v. Robert LeGrand, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington cross-examination hearsay-exception preliminary-hearing sixth-amendment testimonial-statements witness-unavailability Whether a prosecution can admit prior testimonial statements, including a video-taped interview, of a witness that died prior to trial and where defen…
18-5916 Juan Flores v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility casual-conversation co-conspirator co-conspirator-statement co-conspirator-statements conspiracy conspiracy-evidence criminal-procedure evidence evidentiary-standard federal-rule-of-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence furtherance-of-conspiracy hearsay-exception Whether the District Court and Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in ruling that a statement made during a casual conversation between co-conspirat…
18-5442 Craig Alan Wall, Sr. v. Florida Florida 2018-08-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP capital-punishment constitutional-rights crawford-standard crawford-v-washington due-process fifth-amendment forced-appeal fourteenth-amendment hearsay-exception separation-of-powers sixth-amendment unreasonable-determination-of-facts Whether Florida Statute § 90.804(2)(f) violates the Sixth Amendment and Due Process rights of defendants, whether a state court can force a defendant …
18-5394 Casey Peebles v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP coconspirator-statements confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rule fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay hearsay-exception sixth-amendment Whether Inadi and Bourjaily adequately protect an accused's Fifth Amendment due process right to a fair trial and his Sixth Amendment right to confron…