reliability-standard
11 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6203 | Misael Fabian Medina v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review evidence-rule excited-utterance hearsay-exception procedural-fairness reliability-standard | Have the federal appellate courts departed too far from the purpose and intent of the excited utterance exception to the hearsay rule, such that the r… |
| 25-5517 | Joshua Rodriguez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-09-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review evidence-rule hearsay-exception judicial-interpretation present-sense-impression reliability-standard | Have the federal appellate courts departed too far from the purpose and intent of the present-sense impression exception to the hearsay rule, such tha… |
| 23-7355 | Demario Barker v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-calculation hearsay hearsay-statements reliability-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether presumptively unreliable hearsay statements should be permitted in sentencing hearings to substantially increase a Defendant's guideline calcu… |
| 23-6151 | Urbano Torres-Giles v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split clearly-erroneous-facts criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fact-finding reliability reliability-standard sentencing-context sentencing-guidelines | Whether the test for a clearly erroneous fact in the sentencing context should consider the reliability of the challenged fact |
| 22-6491 | Eric Romero-Lobato v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-error due-process eyewitness-identification gatekeeping gatekeeping-function harmless-error law-enforcement reliability reliability-standard suggestive-identification | Whether the subsequent in-court identification violated the defendant's due process rights given the district court's failure to conduct its gatekeepi… |
| 22-5749 | Justin Jamal Warner v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2022-10-04 | Dismissed | IFP | criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification in-camera-hearing law-enforcement-procedure out-of-court-identification police-misconduct reliability-standard surveillance-video unreliable-evidence video-identification | Whether a criminal defendant is entitled to an in camera hearing on the reliability of an out-of-court identification made through video technology un… |
| 21-5032 | Paris Poe v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-07-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | daubert daubert-standard evidence evidence-admissibility expert-testimony feature-comparison federal-rules-of-evidence reliability-standard scientific-methodology scientific-reliability subjective-feature-comparison | Whether Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Federal Rule of Evidence 702 require lower courts to properly analyze the admissibility of ev… |
| 20-5261 | Michael Fred Houston v. Texas | Texas | 2020-08-05 | Denied | IFP | court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification identification-testimony motion-to-suppress reliability-standard suggestive-identification suggestive-procedure totality-of-circumstances witness-reliability | Does the in-court identification meet the reliability standard under the totality of the circumstances, even though the confrontation procedure was su… |
| 19-8208 | Jerald Harris v. Richard Jennings, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2020-04-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process identification identification-evidence police-misconduct reliability reliability-standard suggestive-circumstances | Do the due process protections against unreliable identification evidence apply to all identifications made under suggestive circumstances, as held by… |
| 19-6502 | Cory Dale Fields v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-06 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process federal-district-court federal-sentencing grand-jury no-bill prior-conduct reliability reliability-of-evidence reliability-standard sentencing sentencing-considerations uncharged-conduct | Is alleged prior uncharged conduct that had been no-billed by a Grand Jury sufficiently reliable for a federal district court to consider at sentencin… |
| 18-5266 | Michael Ferguson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines arrest-records bare-arrest-records dismissed-charges due-process evidence-reliability hearsay hearsay-evidence reliability-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | What standard of scrutiny does Due Process require courts to use when evaluating the reliability of evidence courts rely on to impose a sentence? |