lay-witness
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22-7747 | Samuel Wilson, III v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-slang evidence expert-testimony law-enforcement lay-testimony lay-witness | Whether a law enforcement agent who is not designated as an expert can testify as a lay witness about drug slang, jargon or code in conversations to w… |
| 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 |
| 21-5434 | Demontrae Wilson v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | authentication circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidentiary-standards lay-witness social-media social-media-evidence | Proper authentication for social-media 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 |
| 20-485 | Michael Torrence v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2020-10-14 | Denied | 14th-amendment cell-phone-evidence cell-phone-tower-evidence confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process lay-witness pretrial-identification state-action | whether-the-court's-ruling-that-cell-phone-tower-location-data-and-interpretation-may-be-presented-by-an-unqualified-lay-witness-who-is-unable-to-answ… | |
| 19-855 | Lenin Lugo v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-08 | Denied | Amici (1) | circuit-split expert-witness expert-witness-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement-opinion lay-witness lay-witness-testimony professional-experience rule-701 rule-702 | Whether an opinion of a law enforcement officer that depends on the witness's professional experience is admissible as Rule 701 lay opinion or must me… |
| 18-7846 | Reginald Hough v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment confrontation-clause evidence expert-testimony fifth-amendment lay-witness police-procedure probable-cause search-warrant totality-of-circumstances | Was there probable cause for the search warrant? |
| 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 |