rape-shield-law

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
20-5784 Cedric Jeffries v. Ohio Ohio 2020-09-24 Denied IFP complaining-witness confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidence prior-sexual-assault rape-shield-law sexual-assault witness-testimony Does a State rape-shield law violate the Constitutional rights to confrontation and due process?
20-5536 Joseph Scott McKinney v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-defense due-process evidence evidence-exclusion rape-shield rape-shield-law sixth-amendment Whether Louisiana's Rape Shield law and the lower courts' rulings contravened the defendant's Sixth Amendment confrontation right and due process at t…
19-5136 Sha-Ron Haines v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rights cross-examination due-process evidence evidence-rule-412 rape-shield rape-shield-law right-to-privacy victim-privacy Can the Government invoke Federal Rule of Evidence 412, the rape shield, over the objection of the victim, when doing so infringes upon a defendant's …
18-8942 Jeffrey Akard v. Robert E. Carter Jr., Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction Seventh Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 412-Rape-Shield-law-conflict Brady-materials brady-violation due-process evidence-suppression evidentiary-hearing exculpatory-evidence Fifth-Amendment-Due-Process habeas-corpus habeas-relief impeaching-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rape-shield-law sentencing-claims strickland-standards Was Petitioner's 94 year sentence for rape related charges based only on accuser's testimony, in violation of Fifth-Amendment-Due-Process, warrant hab…
18-7847 Ronell Howlett v. Reed Richardson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-court-review federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-28-usc-2254 procedural-bar rape-shield-law right-to-present-defense state-court state-court-review Is a federal court permitted/required to review a state court's reliance on a procedural bar, when a petitioner claims the application of the facts do…
18-221 Carl Mouton v. Arkansas Arkansas 2018-08-21 Denied Response Waived compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-right-to-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence rape-shield rape-shield-law rape-shield-rule right-to-present-defense sexual-conduct-evidence Whether application of the Arkansas rape shield rule and statute to prevent Mouton from presenting evidence of a sexual relationship between the accus…
18-5470 Jeremy J. Bohlman v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process compulsory-process-clause confrontation-clause criminal-evidence due-process due-process-clause evidence fed-rule-evidence-412 federal-rules-of-evidence-412 rape-allegations rape-shield-law sexual-assault sexual-behavior subsequent-behavior-evidence Whether Fed.R.Evid 412 bars a defendant from introducing evidence showing that the alleged victim engaged in subsequent sexual acts inconsistent with …