| 25-6526 |
Johnny Ray Walls-Bey v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2026-01-08 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-rule due-process false-testimony napue-violation plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether state prosecutors' knowing use of false testimony undermines plea agreement voluntariness and constitutes a due process violation |
| 25-5997 |
Tremane Wood v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2025-10-30 |
Denied |
Amici (4)IFP |
brady-violation capital-punishment judicial-bias napue-violation prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony |
Should the Court grant a new trial based on prosecutorial misconduct involving knowingly false witness testimony and hidden benefits in a capital murd… |
| 25-5682 |
Damon Neal Dunbar, Jr. v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2025-09-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence brady-violation constitutional-error jury-evidence napue-violation prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the Oklahoma court of criminal appeals erred in rejecting constitutional errors under Brady and Napue and depriving the jury of critical evide… |
| 24-5170 |
Eric Lee Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony government-misconduct napue-violation prosecutorial-misconduct |
Where the Assistant United States Attorney's representing the Government violates a standard announced in Napue v. Illinois by gaining a criminal conv… |
| 23-7736 |
Clarence Mack v. Margaret Bradshaw, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-06-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254d2 brady-napue-claims brady-violation capital-punishment capital-trial habeas-corpus informant-testimony informant-witness napue-violation prosecutor-deal prosecutorial-misconduct unreasonable-determination |
When the existence of at least an informal, tacit, or unspoken deal between the prosecutor and his star informant-witness in a capital trial is self-e… |
| 23-1013 |
Dalibor Kabov and Berry Kabov v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-15 |
Denied |
|
brady-violation brady-violations drug-trafficking invited-error invited-error-doctrine jury-instructions napue-violation napue-violations ruan-v-united-states section-841 state-of-mind |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in upholding the petitioners' drug distribution conviction despite the conflict with Ruan v. United States |
| 22-5736 |
Ernesto Salgado Martinez v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
buck-davis buck-v-davis discovery due-process extraordinary-circumstances gonzalez-crosby gonzalez-v-crosby napue-v-illinois napue-violation rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 |
Whether the district court abused its discretion by denying Martinez's Rule 60(b)(6) request to reopen the judgment in order to compel discovery |
| 22-5319 |
Gary Lee Rollins v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex |
West Virginia |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process immunity-agreement napue-v-illinois napue-violation prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility |
Does a court commit prejudicial error under Brady v. Maryland and Napue v. Illinois when it makes erroneous factual findings and unreasonable legal co… |
| 22-5048 |
George A. Pilola v. Craig Koenig, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpation fingerprint fingerprint-evidence napue-v-illinois napue-violation ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review prosecutorial-misconduct |
Should CERTIORARI be granted to review the failure of the prosecution to turn over fingerprint evidence and the untruthfulness of the detective and pr… |
| 21-7592 |
Detrick Deroven v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-04-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus Napue-v-Illinois napue-violation schlup-claim Schlup-v-Delo substantive-claim XIV-Amendment |
Whether the Petitioner made a substantive claim of actual innocence to sustain a Schlup v. Delo or Napue v. Illinois violation under the XIV Amendment… |
| 21-6475 |
Mark Hollingsworth v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2021-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation closing-argument criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony jury-argument napue-v-illinois napue-violation prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-fair-trial |
Did the Maryland State Courts err in finding that the Prosecutor did not violate Napue v. Illinois, 360 U.S. 264 (1959) when the Prosecutor argued to … |
| 21-6493 |
Jarrett Alvin Kinley v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-12-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process false-evidence false-testimony napue-v-illinois napue-violation polygraph polygraph-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility |
Did the Pennsylvania Superior Court's holding conflict with Napue v. Illinois, 360 U.S. 264 (1959) |
| 20-8001 |
In Re Gerald Ross Pizzuto, Jr. |
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2021-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
and the presentation of false testimony denying s constitutes a violation of Brady and Napue warran brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process evidence-suppression extraordinary-writ false-testimony habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct napue-v-illinois napue-violation prosecutorial-misconduct witness-tampering |
Whether Mr. Pizzuto is entitled to habeas relief or an extraordinary writ due to the State's suppression of evidence and presentation of false testimo… |
| 20-6570 |
Brandon Bernard v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-disclosure brady-violation death-penalty gang-affiliation government-misconduct napue-claim napue-violation procedural-default section-2255 successive-habeas successive-petition |
Where government action prevented Petitioner from bringing his claims under Brady and Napue in his initial § 2255 motion, should a second-in-time moti… |
| 19-7228 |
Jerry Carter v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
chain-of-custody confidential-informant confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-8th-amendment-confrontation-cla criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns eighth-circuit evidence harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel napue-violation strickland-standard Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in rejecting the |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred |
| 18-492 |
David Souza v. California |
California |
2018-10-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
berger-standard berger-v-united-states constitutional-rights due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment napue-v-illinois napue-violation preliminary-hearing pretrial-proceedings prosecutorial-misconduct |
Does the state prosecutor's failure to acknowledge and correct false/misleading testimony at a preliminary hearing violate due process? |
| 18-5005 |
Lawrence Dawkins v. Stewart Eckert, Superintendent, Wende Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation conflict-between-circuits due-process fair-trial material-evidence napue-giglio napue-violation Napue/Giglio-violation suppression-of-evidence |
Is there a reasonable probability that had the Brady and Napue/Giglio violation been disclosed, the outcome of the trial would have been different? |