shaken-baby-syndrome

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-578 Joshua Eric Hawk Clark v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2025-11-17 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability fourteenth-amendment gatekeeping-function habeas-corpus scientific-evidence shaken-baby-syndrome Did the Court of Appeals erroneously deny Petitioner Joshua Clark a Certificate of Appealability on his Fourteenth Amendment claims even though Petiti…
23-6960 Tasha Mercedez Shelby v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-03-11 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment cause-of-death death-certificate due-process fourteenth-amendment homicide-conviction medical-examiner recantation resentencing shaken-baby-syndrome Does the Due Process Clause require resentencing when the principal evidence supporting a conviction is later recanted?
23A674 Tasha Mercedez Shelby v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-01-22 Presumed Complete due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-expert-testimony newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief shaken-baby-syndrome Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires a state court to consider newly discovered evidence of medical misdiagnosis that p…
23-6171 Patrick Henry Hill, II v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-12-06 Denied IFP actual-innocence criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure forensic-pathology medical-examiner medical-examiners shaken-baby-syndrome veterans veterans-jurisdiction Whether Oklahoma Courts can exercise criminal jurisdiction over veterans detained in state custody based on state medical examiners' opinions when fed…
22-7546 Robert Leslie Roberson, III v. Texas Texas 2023-05-15 Denied Amici (5)IFP actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus medical-evidence scientific-consensus shaken-baby-syndrome Does a conviction based on a discredited scientific theory violate due process?
22-6167 Eber Gramajo v. Mark Nooth, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-discovery habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence pinholster-standard shaken-baby-syndrome Can reasonable jurists disagree whether a federal subpoena request for medical evidence, barred in state court because petitioner had not proven that …
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?
20-6485 Qinard Lamar Collins v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence circuit-split due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus medical-evidence shaken-baby-syndrome statutory-interpretation Whether a freestanding claim of actual innocence is cognizable in a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 proceeding in a case where the prosecution's theory was based on …
18-1273 Alma Caldavado v. New York New York 2019-04-05 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-defense expert-testimony harrington-v-richter ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-evidence presumption-of-ineffective-assistance shaken-baby-syndrome strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel-for-failure-to-present-counter-expert-testimony-on-shaken-baby-syndrome
18-5830 A. L., the Father v. Florida Department of Children and Families Florida 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment brown-vs-board civil-procedure civil-procedure-due-process civil-rights due-process free-speech parental-rights shaken-baby-syndrome standing Whether per curiam affirm decision without reaching merits of the case violated due-process
24A349 Robert Leslie Roberson III v. Texas Texas Denied actual-innocence capital-punishment changed-science due-process forensic-evidence shaken-baby-syndrome Whether a state court's refusal to review new scientific evidence challenging a capital conviction based on now-discredited forensic theories violates…