hearsay-rule

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-5132 Charles Fitzgerald Branch v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split evidence-admissibility evidence-admission federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay hearsay-rule judicial-interpretation non-hearsay non-hearsay-probative-value probative-value procedural-standard Should this Court resolve a split between the Ninth and Third circuits on the admission of evidence for a non-hearsay purpose when its non-hearsay pro…
23-7115 Timothy D. Hinkle v. Kentucky Kentucky 2024-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-rule jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-assault witness-credibility Did the courts allow the petitioner to have a fair and impartial trial?
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
19-6901 Alonso Barrera-Montes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-10 Denied IFP appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure department-of-state due-process evidence evidence-admission hearsay hearsay-rule jurisdiction jury-trial Whether the court of appeals erred in upholding the admission of evidence that violated the hearsay rule and the defendant's confrontation rights
19-6461 Vernon Allen Collins v. Maryland Maryland 2019-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-jury-instructions civil-rights collateral-challenges coram-nobis criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus hearsay-rule jury-instructions laches laches-defense structural-errors Whether a writ of error coram nobis petition can be barred under the two-prong test of the laches defense that challenges the constitutionality of a c…
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…