medical-examiner
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-6588 | In Re Lancey Darnell Ray | 2025-02-19 | Denied | IFP | autopsy-determination due-process forensic-pathology insufficiency-of-evidence jackson-v-virginia medical-examiner | 1st QUESTION PRESENTED Whether state experts ' failure to apply a reliable method to forensic pathology investigations, as required by state procedur… | |
| 24-5118 | Jared Holton Seavey v. Texas | Texas | 2024-07-19 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony medical-examiner precedent remand sixth-amendment | I. Where the State used a surrogate medical examiner to opine as to the cause of death in a murder trial, should the Court GVR this matter in light of… |
| 23-1181 | Gail M. Ritchey v. Ohio | Ohio | 2024-05-01 | Denied | Amici (1) | autopsy-report confrontation-clause criminal-investigation criminal-procedure evidence hearsay-evidence medical-examiner medical-examiner-testimony sixth-amendment | Does the admission of an autopsy report and testimony from a doctor who neither participated in the autopsy nor prepared the report violate the Sixth … |
| 23-6960 | Tasha Mercedez Shelby v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2024-03-11 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 14th-amendment cause-of-death death-certificate due-process fourteenth-amendment homicide-conviction medical-examiner recantation resentencing shaken-baby-syndrome | May a State, consistent with the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, refuse to resentence petitioner, who was sentenced to life in prison … |
| 23-6171 | Patrick Henry Hill, II v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2023-12-06 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure forensic-pathology medical-examiner medical-examiners shaken-baby-syndrome veterans veterans-jurisdiction | Veterans, to include active duty service members and family members that are stationed in the continental United States at installations garrisoned by… |
| 23-6077 | Royal Douglas Robinson v. Texas | Texas | 2023-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 9th-amendment constitutional-challenge conviction criminal-conviction due-process false-evidence forensic-misconduct medical-examiner scientific-evidence | If the state conceded that its medical examiner falsified evidence in the autopsy procedure of several cases, then Robinson discovered that the same e… |
| 22-5426 | Joseph Antonetti v. Timothy Filson, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-08-23 | Denied | IFP | autopsy-report certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-examiner | Did the courts below err in denying a Certificate of Appealability to review the holdings of the district court and the Nevada Supreme Court that Mr. … |
| 21-7610 | Terry Smith v. Florida, et al. | Florida | 2022-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | autopsy autopsy-testimony confrontation-clause due-process evidence forensic-evidence hearsay medical-examiner sixth-amendment testimony | 1. Does Florida's practice of allowing a medical examiner to testify to an autopsy he/she did not perform violate the Confrontation Clause when the me… |
| 21-6177 | Richard Leroy Parker v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | and whether complying with that order is valid co causation civil-rights consent due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement medical-examiner seizure | (1) Whether a law enforcement officer's order to "just kinda stay here" results in a seizure under the Fourth Amendment, and whether complying with th… |
| 21-5294 | Wilshaun King v. Mike Brown, Acting Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-08-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | autopsy-report confrontation-clause criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-examiner plea-bargaining plea-offer right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | I. PETITIONER'S TRIAL COUNSEL WAS APPROACHED AT THE TIME THE JURY RETIRED FOR DELIBEARITONS BY PROSECUTING ATTORNEY SCOTT EHLFELDT TENDERING A PLEA O… |
| 19-604 | Ernest L. Francway, Jr. v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs | Federal Circuit | 2019-11-08 | Denied | Amici (2) | administrative-law burden-of-proof department-of-veterans-affairs due-process federal-circuit judicial-presumption medical-examination medical-examiner medical-expertise presumption-of-competency pro-claimant va-medical-examiners veterans-benefits | Congress has established a veterans-benefits system that is uniquely pro-claimant. In veterans-benefit cases, every statutory and regulatory presumpti… |
| 18-6029 | Debra Ann Aquilina v. Sarah Davis, Administrator, Edna Mahan Correctional Facility, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cause-of-death constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expert-opinion expert-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-examiner right-to-counsel right-to-effective-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel trial-errors trial-proceedings | QUESTION ONE: Did the petitioner's trial counsel provide constitutionally ineffective assistance, violated petitioner 's right to effective assistance… |
| 25A847 | Charles Victor Thompson v. Texas | Texas | Denied | autopsy-report capital-murder confrontation-clause medical-examiner sixth-amendment surrogate-testimony | Question not identified. |