scientific-reliability
11 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-485 | Kirk Prest v. BP Exploration & Production, Incorporated, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-31 | Denied | Response Waived | abuse-of-discretion epidemiological-evidence expert-testimony rule-702 scientific-reliability toxic-tort | Whether a trial court may categorically exclude expert testimony in toxic tort cases without quantitative exposure data and whether the abuse of discr… |
| 24-5706 | Paul Gary Wallace v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ballistics-evidence criminal-procedure due-process forensic-testimony scientific-reliability toolmark-identification | Whether a firearms examiner's conclusive testimony about ballistics matching violates a defendant's due process rights when such evidence is inherentl… |
| 23A566 | Areli Escobar v. Texas | Texas | 2023-12-19 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process forensic-science scientific-reliability | Whether the use of scientifically unreliable forensic DNA evidence that was concededly false and misleading violates a criminal defendant's constituti… | |
| 23-6232 | Charles C. McCrory v. Alabama | Alabama | 2023-12-13 | Denied | Relisted (7)IFP | bite-mark bite-mark-analysis conflicted-judge due-process expert-testimony forensic-evidence judicial-recusal recanted-testimony scientific-developments scientific-reliability | Whether due process prohibits a conviction based on forensic evidence later shown to be unreliable |
| 22-7905 | Tikisha Upshaw v. California | California | 2023-06-29 | Denied | IFP | cell-phone-location co-defendant criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility expert-witness fair-trial jury-instructions police-testimony scientific-reliability witness-testimony | Can a court allow unsupported opinion evidence from a police officer, who does not hold a higher science-engineering degree, about a novel cell phone … |
| 22-7828 | John C. Russell v. Patrick Covello, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2023-06-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | dna-evidence due-process evidence-admissibility generally-accepted novel-methodology pre-trial-hearing reliability scientific-methodology scientific-reliability | Did the trial court violate petitioner's right to due process when it admitted DNA evidence based on a novel methodology without conducting a pre-tria… |
| 21-7003 | Latique Johnson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | admissibility admissibility-standard ballistics ballistics-testimony evidence expert-testimony expert-witness federal-rules-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence firearm forensic-science scientific-reliability | Whether testimony by ballistics toolmark experts that a particular firearm fired recovered bullets or casings is presently so flawed as to be inadmiss… |
| 21-504 | Joshua Eric Hawk Clark, aka Joshua Clark v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2021-10-05 | Denied | Response Waived | due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment judicial-reliability murder-conviction scientific-evidence scientific-reliability second-degree-murder shaken-baby-syndrome | Does the Due Process Clause prohibit a conviction based on unreliable expert testimony? |
| 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… |
| 19-8407 | Mauro Ramirez v. Florida | Florida | 2020-05-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process equal-protection evidence fair-trial forensic-evidence scientific-reliability | Whether the State must establish the reliability and accuracy of the lab instrumentation used for electrophoresis and other preliminary DNA analyses b… |
| 18-8974 | Stanley Bruce Roberson v. Texas | Texas | 2019-04-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence scientific-evidence scientific-reliability statistical-extrapolation statistical-sampling unvalidated-methods | Does the unvalidated method of statistical extrapolation constitute scientifically reliable evidence? |