informant-testimony
8 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-6987 | Cornelius Mayberry v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arrest-procedure fourth-amendment informant-testimony probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search | Does a warrantless search and seizure of a closed container violate the Fourth Amendment absent clear evidence of intent to abandon, and does a warran… |
| 24-6241 | Justin Michael Buehler v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence-limitation informant-testimony judicial-discretion witness-credibility | Did the District Court abuse its discretion by limiting the defendant's cross-examination of the key witness and informant's criminal history? |
| 23-7736 | Clarence Mack v. Margaret Bradshaw, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-06-17 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2254d2 brady-napue-claims brady-violation capital-punishment capital-trial habeas-corpus informant-testimony informant-witness napue-violation prosecutor-deal prosecutorial-misconduct unreasonable-determination | When the existence of at least an informal, tacit, or unspoken deal between the prosecutor and his star informant-witness in a capital trial is self-e… |
| 21-5856 | Raymond LeQuan Gibbs v. Neil McDowell, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bias confrontation-clause credibility criminal-trial cross-examination informant-testimony informant-witness sixth-amendment witness-credibility | Whether the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause was violated when the defendant was prevented from cross-examining an informant witness on topics i… |
| 20-825 | Christopher Brewer v. Teresa Hooks, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-12-18 | Denied | 4th-amendment causal-connection fourth-amendment informant informant-testimony probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant section-1983 | Whether probable cause or arguable probable cause exists to seek a search warrant where an officer relies upon an informant who turns himself in, admi… | |
| 18-9409 | Fermin Guerrero v. Martin Biter, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-05-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation constitutional-errors criminal-trial-errors cumulative-error cumulative-prejudice due-process eyewitness-testimony habeas-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel informant-testimony strickland strickland-standard strickland-violation | Does the Constitution require a cumulative assessment of multiple constitutional errors at a criminal trial? |
| 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… |
| 18-6169 | Tracy L. Johnson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 924(c)-statute conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-conspiracy drug-crimes due-process firearm-possession informant-testimony law-enforcement-conduct mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether a defendant should be subject to a mandatory 25 year consecutive 924(c) sentence for the same drug Conspiracy |