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24A465 Timothy M. Gemelli v. Perry Nicosia, District Attorney, 34th Judicial District Court, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-11-08 Presumed Complete brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment material-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct Question not identified.
24-305 Justin Savage v. Georgia Office of Administrative Hearings Georgia 2024-09-18 Denied Relisted (2) commission-review constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment material-evidence Whether the failure of the Commission and subsequent courts to duly consider and address material evidence, including the absence of any criminal reco…
24-5451 Martin Moncada-de la Cruz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-09-04 Denied IFP controlled-substances-act criminal-procedure drug-possession intent-to-distribute material-evidence witness-deportation 1. Whether, for purposes of the Controlled Substances Act, proof of possession with intent to distribute requires a showing of control over the drugs,…
23-6730 Bryant Calloway v. United States Third Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review material-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility witness-testimony Whether despite evidence that the fundamental witness of the prosecution, in the shape of violation passed on the divergeceptions of Thomas Valdez Gui…
23-6525 Michael Dukes v. E.M.S.A. HSA Stephanie Wood, et al. Third Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure court-proceedings due-process evidence extraordinary-circumstances judicial-procedure legal-standard material-evidence obstruction obstruction-of-justice standing DOES OBSTRUCTION PREVENTING DISPOSITIVE MATERIAL EVIDENCE FROM BEING PRESENTED IN COURT CONSTITUTE EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES?
23-610 Frander Salguero v. California California 2023-12-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedures material-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment 1. Whether the effect on due process remains unchanged as to Brady's holding, "suppression by the prosecution of evidence favorable to an accused upon…
22-1142 Jamil Al-Amin v. Georgia Georgia 2023-05-24 Denied Response Waived brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus material-evidence mistaken-identity planted-evidence possession prosecutorial-misconduct After Petitioner Jamil Al-Amin filed a federal habeas action challenging his Georgia conviction, the FBI for the first time produced: (1) a BOLO ("be …
22-7611 George Cunningham v. Maria Quinn, et vir Sixth Circuit 2023-05-22 Denied IFP 14th-amendment becker-v-montgomery child-custody civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure icara material-evidence notice-of-appeal standing 1. Should the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit have accepted a corrected notice of appeal, which involved failure of Nanette Abao …
22-6526 Anton Michael Kubica v. California California 2023-01-11 Denied IFP case-dismissal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-review material-evidence prosecutorial-delay prosecutorial-misconduct speedy-trial WAS THE APPELLANT DENIED HIS FEDERAL AND STATE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS, BECAUSE OF UNJUSTIFIED, PREJUDICIAL PROSECUTORIAL DELAY IN FILING …
22-6525 Keith D. Arline, Jr. v. California California 2023-01-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brady-claim constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence material-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct suppression-of-evidence williams-v-traylor 1) WHETHER THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT RENDERED A DECISION IN VIOLATION OF THE LAW OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT AS PRONOUNCED IN BRADY V. MARYL…
22-6085 Curtis Neville v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-materiality brady-v-maryland cooperating-witness credibility criminal-evidence due-process due-process-violation kyles-v-whitley material-evidence prosecutorial-disclosure witness-credibility In a prosecution built almost entirely on the credibility of cooperating Government witnesses, is an incentivized cooperating witness's letter address…
22-5635 Vladimir Vladimirovic Brik v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-09-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation civil-rights due-process federal-procedure gatekeeping-provision habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance material-evidence second-petition successive-petition Are second-in-time petitions raising newly discovered material Brady violations "second or seccessive" within the meaning of §2255(h)'s gatekeeping pr…
22-77 David Brown v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-07-27 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (7) brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence favorable-evidence material-evidence materiality-standard third-party-confession Where a defendant denies participating in a particular criminal act, is another person's confession stating that he and someone else committed the act…
21-8085 Frank Jarvis Atwood v. Arizona Arizona 2022-06-08 Denied IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence material-evidence material-exculpatory-evidence materiality-analysis prosecutorial-misconduct third-party-culpability 1. Did the State withhold material exculpatory evidence of a tip received by law enforcement independently linking a known third-party suspect to the …
21-7636 Ramon Lopez v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Connecticut 2022-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure disclosure due-diligence material-evidence material-favorable-evidence prosecuting-authority prosecutorial-evidence Does the rule set forth in Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), requiring that the government disclose material favorable evidence to a criminal def…
21-6751 Rudy Mendoza v. United States Third Circuit 2022-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure defendant-rights deportation due-process material-evidence materiality victim witness witness-testimony 1. WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT MUST PROVIDE NOTICE TO A DEFENDANT PRIOR TO UNILATERALLY DEPORTING THE SOLE WITNESS AND SOLE ALLEGED VICTIM OF A PENDING CRI…
20-7341 James Coddington v. Jim Farris, Warden Tenth Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied Amici (1)IFP capital-punishment criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus harmless-error material-evidence mens-rea right-to-defense right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment On direct appeal, the state court found that constitutional error marred the trial, which ended with a death sentence for petitioner. The error—barrin…
20-669 Billy John Bell v. Texas Texas 2020-11-16 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) bad-faith due-process evidence-destruction exculpatory-evidence material-evidence material-exculpatory state-destruction trombetta trombetta-test youngblood youngblood-standard In 2016, Petitioner Billy John Bell was indicted for crimes against a child sixteen years after the time of alleged incidents, dated between 1998 and …
20-630 Benjamin Scott Brewer v. Tennessee Tennessee 2020-11-10 Denied Response Waived brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering exculpatory-evidence forensic-evidence material-evidence state-misconduct Whether this Court's ruling in Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) and its progeny entitle a defendant to the knowledge, before trial, that a state …
20-6076 Harold Pena v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP coram-nobis due-process indictment-defect jurisdiction-errors jurisdictional-error marpol-violation material-evidence material-evidence-suppression summary-affirmance 1.- What is the appropriate standard of review, when the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal improperly and controversy, Grants the Government's Motion f…
20-6030 Byron A. Wyatt v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure evidentiary-sufficiency interest-of-justice interests-of-justice material-evidence newly-discovered-evidence rule-33 standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-standard Whether F.R.Crim.P. Rule 33's standard for granting a new trial based on newly discovered evidence "if the interest of justice so requires" cannot be …
19-1355 Betzaida P. Jernigan v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2020-06-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) accredited-service-officer administrative-law advice-by-counsel agency-discretion civil-rights due-process false-evidence false-information government-misconduct judicial-authority judicial-review material-evidence omission-of-relevant-material-evidence presumption-of-withdrawal standing standing-contrary-to-petitioner's-claims willful-submission-of-false-information Willful submission of false information and omission of relevant material evidence by accredited service officer(s) and advice by counsel to claimant …
19-953 Charles Farrar v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-conviction due-process judicial-review material-evidence perjured-testimony perjury post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Due Process Clause is violated when the prosecution relies on material, perjured testimony to secure a conviction but did not know the tes…
19-7294 Mohammed Kwaning v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidence fair-trial hearsay hearsay-testimony judicial-error jury-trial material-evidence preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether the Government officials conduct violated constitutional rights? where;Petitioner's (a) The District Court failed to disclose material eviden…
19-6646 Paul John Denham v. California California 2019-11-15 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process evidence-fabrication false-testimony material-evidence materiality napue-v-illinois prosecutorial-misconduct pyle-v-kansas I. Whether Paul John Denham's Constitutional right to due process as defined in Napue v. Illinois (1959) 370 U.S. 264, 79 S. Ct 1173, 3 1. Ed. 2d 1217…
19-6557 Steven Nygren v. United States First Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP cognitive-impairment competency-to-stand-trial forensic-evaluation malingering material-evidence obstruction-of-justice rehabilitation sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g-3c1.1 u.s.s.g.-3c1.1 A defendant with a medically documented cognitive impairment, which defendant was engaged in rehabilitation, was progressing positively in said rehabi…
19-5847 Dennis White v. Ohio Ohio 2019-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment hospital-records ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel material-evidence pre-indictment-delay reasonable-probability sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Was the State Appellate court decision contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established federal law, Strickland v. Washing…
19-5335 Patrick Brunette v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure disability-rating due-process effective-date lay-testimony material-evidence medical-evidence medical-records prescribed-bedrest reconsideration reopening-claims service-connected-disabilities veterans-affairs veterans-affairs-regulations veterans-claims Whether the VA incorrectly discharged its responsibilities under 38-C.F.R.-Section-3.156(c)
18-1242 Endre' Glenn v. Nordic Services, Inc. Washington 2019-03-25 Denied arbitration arbitration-procedure due-process equal-protection material-evidence material-testimony reasonable-opportunity reasonable-opportunity-to-prepare subpoena subpoena-duces-tecum washington-state-law Whether contractor and subcontractor violated homeowner's due process rights by ignoring subpoena and arbitrator's order, depriving homeowner of mater…
18-7582 Ralph Nicholas Canete v. Chuck Keeton, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied IFP compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment material-evidence sixth-amendment Whether the destruction of material evidence by the government violates the right to due process
18-7414 Ray McArthur Freeney v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied Amici (1)IFP 28-usc-2254 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence habeas-corpus material-evidence notice-and-hearing procedural-fairness state-court state-court-deference statutory-interpretation Whether deference is accorded to a state court decision under 28 U.S.C. §2254(d) where the state court received and relied upon material evidence and …
18-7069 John Ludovici v. Robert Marsh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Benner Township, et al. Third Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied IFP 14th-amendment brady-violation constitutional-violation criminal-procedure discovery due-process material-evidence misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct Did the Commonwealth commit misconduct when it intentionally withheld various forms of material evidence in violation of the 14th Amendment?
18-7038 William Owens v. Texas Texas 2018-12-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence material-evidence police-report prosecutorial-misconduct victim-credibility whether-state-withheld-material-evidence
18-488 In Re Pamela Denise Idlett 2018-10-16 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-law-judge civil-rights constitutional-rights disability-determination due-process federal-agency judicial-misconduct material-evidence social-security social-security-disability social-security-policy standing Whether the Social Security Administration (SSA) Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) gives verbal acknowledgement in his federal hearing to a known disabil…
18-5453 Mark Elliott v. Carmen Denise Palmer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation confrontation-clause due-process due-process-brady-v-maryland favorable-to-accused hearsay-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel material-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct remand-for-coa right-to-confrontation sixth-amendment whether-under-brady-and-its-progeny-the-prosecution's-intentional-nondisclosure-of-petitioner's-requested-911-audio-recordings-requires-his-conviction…
18-5005 Lawrence Dawkins v. Stewart Eckert, Superintendent, Wende Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation conflict-between-circuits due-process fair-trial material-evidence napue-giglio napue-violation Napue/Giglio-violation suppression-of-evidence Is there a reasonable probability that had the Brady and Napue/Giglio violation been disclosed, the outcome of the trial would have been different?