legal-insufficiency

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
20-6161 Joey Lamont Brunson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment legal-insufficiency statutory-interpretation suppression-of-evidence surveillance-law wiretap-order wiretapping Whether a wiretap order that fails to specify the name of the person who authorized the application for such order is insufficient on its face, thereb…
19-7376 Alice C. Trappler v. New York New York 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture hearsay hearsay-exception legal-insufficiency sixth-amendment waiver Whether the automatic waiver and permanent forfeiture of legal insufficiency claims due to trial counsel's failure to move to dismiss on those grounds…
18-6464 Frank Ralph LaPena v. George Grigas, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP contract-killing criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus highly-deferential-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-insufficiency legal-sufficiency nevada-supreme-court physical-evidence rational-juror reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence witness-testimony wrongful-conviction Whether the Nevada Supreme Court's decision rejecting the legal insufficiency claim was unreasonable because, even under a highly deferential review, …