propensity
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22-839 | Daniel Greer v. Connecticut | Connecticut | 2023-03-03 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instructions propensity propensity-evidence sex-crimes sexual-misconduct | Is the Due Process Clause violated when a jury at a sex crimes trial is instructed that evidence of uncharged sexual misconduct "is admissible and may… |
| 21-7613 | James Edward Williams v. Illinois | Illinois | 2022-04-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence hearsay hearsay-evidence jury-instructions prior-bad-acts propensity | The state appellate court's decision was wrong Can the jury be instructed to consider Criminal 3.14 IPI instructions Saying that the jury can consider… |
| 21-6463 | William Martin Cresham v. California | California | 2021-11-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process evidence evidence-law prior-acts propensity propensity-evidence | This case presents the question this Court acknowledged was "left open" in Estelle v. McGuire, 502 U.S. 62, 75, fn. 5 (1991): "whether a state law wou… |
| 20-7675 | John G. Stroming v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-04-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-gender-differences child-molestation criminal-procedure criminal-propensity evidence evidence-admissibility evidentiary-rules federal-law prior-convictions propensity victim-characteristics | Whether prior convictions for crimes of child molestation can be admitted into evidence where – because of differences in the age and gender of the vi… |
| 18-9712 | Noe Juarez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy conspiracy-law criminal-procedure deliberate-ignorance due-process evidence evidence-404(b) evidence-rule-404b jury-instructions new-trial propensity propensity-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct | (1) What is the proper framework for determining whether a prosecutor's improper propensity-based arguments related to 404(b) evidence warrant a new t… |
| 18-6176 | Michael Lucero v. California | California | 2018-10-02 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-evidence criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment prior-acts propensity propensity-evidence | This case presents the question this Court acknowledged was "left open" in Estelle v. McGuire, 502 U.S. 62, 75, fn. 5 (1991): "whether a state law wou… |