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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-5969 Semaan Makdissi v. Florida Florida 2023-11-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-accusation fourteenth-amendment motive sixth-amendment Whether the Petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated when the trial court prohibited the defense from placing before the jury …
21-6499 Henry Pratt v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias civil-litigation civil-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility insurance-bias motive restitution restitution-claim settlement-agreement trial-court-discretion Where the trial court erred by precluding the Use of a CivifSettlement Agreement between Henry Pratt and Nationwide which was admissible to show Natio…
20-7661 Rodney Russell v. United States First Circuit 2021-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process ex-parte-communication juror-bias juror-dishonesty jury-selection motive structural-error I. Whether it viola ted due proc ess for the distric t court to a ppoint the Federal Defender not only to re present a juror for whom a legitim ate cl…
19-5663 Clifford L. Robinson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP enterprise-profits federal-jurisdiction motive motive-element pecuniary-gain racketeering state-murder vcar-statute The VCAR statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a)(1), contains two "motive" elements, only one of which applies to Petitioner's case. To prove this element, Respo…
19-178 Jagdish C. Laul v. Los Alamos National Laboratories Tenth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied burden-shifting civil-procedure employment-discrimination inference-weighing jury-competency jury-trial-right mcdonnell-douglas motive motive-determination seventh-amendment summary-judgment Does requiring the trial judge to weigh inferences (and in some cases inferences from inferences) and determine motive from competing testimony depriv…
18-36 Gregory Brice v. United States District of Columbia 2018-07-06 Denied alternate-suspect brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence motive motive-evidence new-trial post-trial-confession suppressed-evidence Petitioner was convicted of murder based on conflicting eyewitness testimony. The government's witnesses put petitioner at the scene of the crime. Pet…