probative-value

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-7243 Dieudruch Emmanuel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure extraordinary-circumstances marital-privilege prejudicial-evidence probative-value witness-testimony WHETHER THE MARITAL PRIVILEGE WARRANTS LIMITING THE WIFE'S TESTIMONY UNDER EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES WHEN FAILURE TO DO SO WILL ALLOW HIGHLY PREJUDI…
24-6961 Stephen J. Pierre-Paul v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-defendant-testimony consciousness-of-guilt cooperating-witness probative-value reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement Due Process requires a criminal conviction be obtained by proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Cooperating witness testimony is admissible evidence, thoug…
24-5240 Bradley Dale Hull v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied IFP federal-rules-of-evidence intent intent-element lower-court-decisions other-act-evidence prejudice probative-value rule-403 rule-404(b) rule-404b unfair-prejudice Is it incumbent upon a trial court when determining whether the probative value of other-act evidence offered under Rule 404(b) is substantially outwe…
24-5132 Charles Fitzgerald Branch v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split evidence-admissibility evidence-admission federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay hearsay-rule judicial-interpretation non-hearsay non-hearsay-probative-value probative-value procedural-standard Should this Court resolve a split between the Ninth and Third circuits, where the Third Circuit has condemned the admission of evidence for a non-hear…
23-6271 Tyrone Maddox v. Illinois Illinois 2023-12-15 Denied IFP criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility intent intent-element judicial-discretion narcotics-charge prejudice prejudicial-evidence prior-conviction prior-convictions probative-value The trial court should not have allowed the introduction of Tyrone Maddox's 20 year old prior Indiana Conviction for delivery of Narcotics on the issu…
23-5409 Peter Fratus v. United States Third Circuit 2023-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP evidence-admissibility kars4kids prejudicial-effect probative-value rep-waters third-circuit I. Whether the Third Circuit did not properly weigh the probative value with the prejudicial effect when admitting the messages to Kars4Kids and Rep. …
23-5332 Tamara Jeune, aka Tamara Voltaire v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied IFP circuit-court-split circuit-split evidence-rule federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-interpretation prejudice probative-value propensity-evidence rule-404(b) trial-procedure How are the courts to properly apply Fed. R. Evid. 404(b)? Should they apply the Third Circuit's more substantive approach which requires a close conn…
22-5199 Israel Manuel Rios v. Texas Texas 2022-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process evidence-rule-403 extraneous-offense extraneous-offenses fair-trial prejudicial-effect probative-value rule-403 sexual-misconduct QUESTION 1: Certiorari should be granted to determine whether the purpose of Rule 403 is to exclude relevant but substantially prejudicial evi dence, …
21-980 Brad Jennings v. Daniel F. Nash, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) evidentiary-doctrine federal-rules-of-evidence jury-instructions opening-the-door prejudicial-effect probative-value rule-403 summary-judgment 1. Does the doctrine of "opening the door" require the traditional Federal Rules of Evidence Rule 403 balancing of probative value versus prejudicial …
21-6396 Tamara Jeune v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-23 Dismissed IFP circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-propensity evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence prejudice prior-bad-acts probative-value propensity-evidence How are the courts to properly apply Fed. R. Evid. 404(b)? Should they apply the Third Circuit's more substantive approach which requires a close conn…
18-6265 Samuel Silva v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure criminal-statute evidence evidence-prejudice federal-firearms federal-rule-403 federal-rules-of-evidence felon-in-possession felon-possession firearm-possession jury-instruction jury-instructions prejudice prejudicial-evidence probative-value rule-403 Whether the practice of telling juries in a 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) (1) prosecution that the defendant is a previously -convicted felon, as is routine ly d…