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 | Some, but not all, circuits permit a law enforcement agent who is not designated as an expert to testify as a lay witness about drug slang, jargon or … |
| 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 | 1. 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 | Social media evidence presents unique foundational issues and is now a nearly ubiquitous component of many criminal cases. The standards for admission… |
| 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, when they were not parties to the conve… |
| 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 | Under Federal Rule of Evidence 702, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education may testify in opinion fo… |
| 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 | Based on the totality of the circumstances was there probable cause for the search warrant to issue? Is it permissible for a lay witness to offer tes… |
| 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… |