napue-standard
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6707 | Elijah Dwayne Joubert v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2026-02-03 | Pending | IFP | capital-trial false-testimony federal-law habeas-corpus materiality-burden napue-standard | Whether, under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1), a standard that places the burden on the petitioner to prove materiality from the State's knowing elicitation a… |
| 24-6449 | Belinda Jones v. Jeremy Howard, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2025-02-03 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment legal-conflict napue-standard trial-fairness | Whether the Fourteenth Amendment is violated when lower courts' legal standard for false testimony claims conflicts with the Supreme Court's standard … |
| 23-6175 | Phillip A. Kenner v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence-standard government-witness napue-standard napue-v-illinois perjury prosecutorial-misconduct witness-perjury | What evidentiary showing is required, under Napue v. Illinois, 360 U.S. 264 (1959), to establish that a prosecution witness has offered false testimon… |
| 22-5561 | Terrance Brooks v. Illinois | Illinois | 2022-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-court appellate-review conviction due-process judicial-review napue-standard napue-v-illinois perjured-testimony perjury prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-likelihood | Whether the Appellate Court of Illinois rejection of Mr. Brooks assertion of knowing use of perjured testimony to obtain a conviction had a reasonable… |
| 20-7850 | Aaron J. LaRose v. Missouri | Missouri | 2021-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-courts brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance napue-standard napue-v-illinois post-conviction-relief strickland-v-washington | Whether the state courts denied due process, equal protection, and access to courts by misapplying Brady v. Maryland, Napue v. Illinois, and Stricklan… |
| 19-7813 | Michael C. Jamerson v. Jason Lewis, Warden | Missouri | 2020-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process evidentiary-hearing exculpatory-evidence giglio-vs-united-states habeas-corpus napue-standard napue-vs-illinois perjured-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony | Did the Missouri courts err in failing to find that the State's failure to disclose exculpatory evidence violated its obligation under Brady v. Maryla… |
| 18-1043 | Adam Clayton Zilm v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2019-02-08 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | burden-of-proof coerced-testimony criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony napue-standard napue-v-illinois recantation reliability-hearing witness-coercion | Conviction of child sex abuse challenged on due process grounds for use of coerced testimony at trial |