melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-1068 Gary Paul Kirkman v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-05-04 Denied certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts sane-records sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in denying Gary Paul Kirkman's request for a certificate of appealability
22-885 South Carolina v. Angela D. Brewer South Carolina 2023-03-15 Denied confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure expert-testimony forensic-evidence forensic-pathology melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts ohio-v-clark sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence testimonial-statements Whether lab results requested not by law enforcement but by a forensic pathologist to assist in making a routine cause of death determination are test…
21-8237 Odece Dempsean Hill v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington forensic-nurse-examiner melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts ninth-circuit sexual-assault sexual-assault-victim testimonial-statements Whether the Confrontation Clause permits the prosecution to introduce the testimonial statements of a non-testifying sexual-assault-victim lay-witness
18-9555 Kenneth Thomas v. Robert Marsh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Benner Township Third Circuit 2019-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP autopsy-report confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington cross-examination fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts sixth-amendment strickland-standard testimonial-evidence Whether the introduction of an autopsy report which was presented as substantive evidence but not testified to by its author violates the Sixth and Fo…
18-9428 Robert L. Jenkins v. Pelicia E. Hall, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction bullcoming-v-new-mexico civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law forensic-evidence judicial-review melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts testimonial-statements Whether the testimonial statements of witnesses about forensic testing may be admitted only where the declarant is unavailable, and only where the def…