motive
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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… |