jailhouse-informant

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-7368 In Re Anthony Floyd Wainwright 2025-06-06 Denied IFP brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus jailhouse-informant prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the state court's Brady analysis violated due process by improperly relieving the State of its obligation to disclose exculpatory evidence fro…
24A1204 In re Anthony Floyd Wainwright 2025-06-06 Denied brady-violation capital-habeas due-process jailhouse-informant prosecutorial-misconduct suppressed-evidence Whether the State's suppression of evidence regarding jailhouse informants' expectations of sentencing leniency in exchange for testimony violated the…
22-7222 Ray Dansby v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied IFP bias confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process informant jailhouse-informant witness-impeachment Whether preclusion of cross-examination about an informant's propensity for bias violates the Confrontation Clause
22-6670 Jimmy Ray Lacy, Jr. v. Chandler Cheeks Sixth Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jailhouse-informant prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Was Jimmy Ray Lacy Jr. denied a fair trial under the fourteenth amendment
20-5407 Dominique Mack v. United States Second Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Relisted (4)IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process evidence jailhouse-informant mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing plain-error sentencing statements-against-interest Whether the district court's admission of jailhouse informant testimony violated this Court's jurisprudence on statements against interest
19-8425 Chayce Aaron Anderson v. Colorado Colorado 2020-05-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights cross-examination due-process fair-trial jailhouse-informant jury-trial prejudicial-evidence Whether the district court erred in limiting the scope of cross-examination of a jailhouse informant, denying the defendant's constitutional right to …
19-1094 James Milton Dailey v. Florida Florida 2020-03-05 Denied brady-claim brady-v-maryland due-diligence exculpatory-evidence giglio-claim giglio-v-united-states jailhouse-informant jailhouse-informants materiality materiality-standard perjury prosecutorial-misconduct whether-a-defendant-advancing-a-brady-claim-must-demonstrate-due-diligence
18-8546 Gerald Delane Murray v. Florida Florida 2019-03-26 Denied IFP actual-innocence batson-v-kentucky batson-violation brady-violation civil-rights conflict-counsel constitutional-violations cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jailhouse-informant post-conviction post-conviction-relief Whether the state court denied due process by failing to appoint conflict counsel when post-conviction counsel undermined petitioner's claims, and whe…
18-6659 James Rodwell v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2018-11-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP agency-relationship criminal-informant criminal-procedure government-agent implicit-agreement jailhouse-informant massiah massiah-doctrine sentencing-benefits sixth-amendment Whether an in-custody criminal informant who has repeatedly benefited monetarily and received lesser sentences from previous cooperation with the gove…
18-6639 Stuart Dizak v. Brandon Smith, Superintendent, Mid-State Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence conspiracy-charge criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jailhouse-informant judicial-misconduct jury-instructions jury-notes perjured-testimony perjury prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the state court failed to return the defendant to the courtroom upon receipt of two substantive jury notes, and whether the actual charge of c…
18-6021 Patricia Burney v. Debbie Aldridge, Warden Tenth Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland due-process exculpatory-evidence false-testimony federal-due-process harmless-error jailhouse-informant state-court-denial state-law trial-prejudice Whether the state court's denial of petitioner's due process claim, wherein he alleged that the state's destruction of exculpatory evidence fatally pr…
18-5347 Marquis D. Costic v. Illinois Illinois 2018-07-25 Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights credibility cross-examination fifth-amendment jailhouse-informant jury-instructions prosecution-witness prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-disclosure Was my Sixth Amendment U.S. Constitutional Right, under the Confrontation Clause violated when the prosecution kept interrupting during cross-examinat…