| 25-6094 |
Chimene Hamilton Onyeri v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing law-enforcement-testimony rico-conspiracy sixth-amendment trial-strategy |
I. Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine whether a defendant is denied his Sixth Amendment right to conflict-free counsel where trial co… |
| 25-6092 |
Olegario Lares-De La Rosa v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence-interpretation federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement-testimony lay-opinion |
Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 701 permits a law enforcement officer to provide a lay opinion about the meaning of ordinary language used in a recor… |
| 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 |
1. Whether the introduction of speculative lay
opinion by a law enforcement officer, asserting a staged
robbery without personal knowledge or expert… |
| 24-6470 |
Alan E. Sanchez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights court-procedure deliberate-falsity fourth-amendment judicial-review law-enforcement-testimony |
Whether a district court and appellate court can declare deliberate false testimony of law enforcement a mistake and ignore it when analyzing a defend… |
| 23-5042 |
Daniel Robinson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process federal-rule-of-evidence fifth-amendment grand-jury law-enforcement-testimony opinion-evidence prosecutorial-overreach |
Whether this Court's guidance on constructive amendments in conspiracy cases is necessary to protect criminal defendants' Fifth Amendment rights |
| 22-5072 |
Basil Bey v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence-rule-701 evidentiary-standards federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement-testimony opinion-evidence uniform-standards witness-testimony |
Whether this Court should set limits on what law enforcement testimony should be admitted as opinion evidence under Federal Rule of Evidence 701 |
| 22-5055 |
Amin Wadley, aka Jamil Abdul Amin White v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-trial-procedure evidence-rules evidentiary-standards federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement law-enforcement-testimony lay-witness lay-witness-testimony opinion-evidence opinion-testimony |
Whether this Court should set limits on what law enforcement testimony should be admitted as opinion evidence under Federal Rule of Evidence 701 |
| 21-6100 |
Rodrigo Martinez-Mendoza v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review clear-error clear-error-standard due-process factual-findings immigration immigration-law law-enforcement-testimony public-confidence standard-of-review |
whether-appellate-court-reviewing-factual-findings-for-clear-error-must-take-account-of-undisputed-contrary-evidence |
| 20-8404 |
Andre Brown and Anthony Wilson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split coded-language drug-jargon expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement-testimony lay-witness rule-701 |
Whether government agents can testify solely as lay witnesses under Rule 701 of the Federal Rules of Evidence |
| 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? |
| 19-7246 |
Keith Harris v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause crawford-rule crawford-v-washington cross-examination hearsay informants law-enforcement-testimony lay-opinion-testimony right-to-counsel sixth-amendment witness-testimony |
Whether the admission of law enforcement testimony that goes to whether a defendant was a participant in a conspiracy based on information provided by… |
| 19-6491 |
Matthew Shaffer v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-search-and-seizur drug-conspiracy due-process evidence-suppression evidentiary-hearing exclusionary-rule firearms-expert-testimony-drug-activity law-enforcement-testimony multiple-conspiracies-sentencing-enhancements rule-29-motion-sufficiency-of-evidence search-warrant sentencing-enhancement standing |
Whether the trial court erred in failing to conduct an evidentiary hearing and suppress evidence obtained under a search warrant |
| 18-9675 |
Tommy Dean Bullcoming v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights credibility-determination de-novo-review due-process evidence law-enforcement-testimony qualified-immunity scott-v-harris standard-of-review summary-judgment video-evidence |
Should a video recording of the actual events that clearly contradicts the sworn testimony of an officer support de novo review of the district court'… |
| 18-8216 |
Zavia L. Johnson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review clearly-erroneous clearly-erroneous-standard law-enforcement-officer law-enforcement-testimony scott-v-harris standard-of-review testimony video-evidence videotape videotape-evidence |
Does a federal courts of appeals misapply the clearly erroneous standard of review when it upholds a district court's crediting of a law enforcement o… |
| 18-7576 |
Jordaan Stanly Creque v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-murder constitutional-rights credibility death-penalty due-process law-enforcement-testimony law-enforcement-witness reliable-process summation summation-and-bolstering trial-by-jury witness-credibility |
Does a capital murder conviction and death sentence violate due-process, trial-by-jury, and reliable-process rights when a law-enforcement witness who… |
| 18-7010 |
Jermaine Mitchell v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause expert-testimony expert-witness forensic-evidence lab-reports law-enforcement-testimony lay-testimony narcotics narcotics-testimony scientific-evidence sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence |
Whether law enforcement (lay) testimonies about the narcotics character of certain substances may be shined with the expert testimonial gloss of unpro… |
| 18-6542 |
Mauricio Licea v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure dual-role due-process evidence expert-testimony expert-witness jury-instruction jury-instructions law-enforcement law-enforcement-testimony lay-witness trial-procedure |
Whether district courts must give a dual-purpose jury instruction after a law enforcement officer testifies as both an expert and a percipient witness |
| 18-5286 |
Odere Suleitopa v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-conflict circuit-split civil-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rule-of-evidence-701 federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement law-enforcement-officer-testimony law-enforcement-testimony lay-witness-testimony opinion-testimony personal-knowledge personal-knowledge-requirement witness-testimony |
Whether Rule 701's personal knowledge' requirement permits law enforcement officers to offer lay opinion testimony regarding an investigation when the… |