prosecution-misconduct

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6585 Patrick Killen, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-14 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering prosecution-misconduct self-incrimination speedy-trial 1. Whether the prosecution can use an arbitrary and fictitious list of 442 unknown individuals during sentencing all of whom never testified during t…
23-5609 Eric G. Banks, Sr. v. Anthony Brown, Attorney General of Maryland, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment court-error due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-counsel liberty prosecution-misconduct sixth-amendment Did the U.S. District Court violate the Petitioners 5th Amendment Constitutional Right
19-6875 Travis Trevino Runnels v. Texas Texas 2019-12-06 Denied IFP circuit-split constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process expert-testimony expert-witness false-expert-testimony false-testimony prosecution-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct texas-death-penalty Whether the use of false expert testimony to obtain a death sentence violates due process, regardless of the prosecution's knowledge of the falsity
18-7713 Darnell Grimsley v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice procedural-default prosecution-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct sequestration sequestration-order sufficiency-of-evidence trial-testimony violation-of-sequestration-order Did the Third Circuit err in deferring to the district court's opinion that this issue was procedurally defaulted and finding that Mr. Grimsley was no…