testimonial-hearsay

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-512 Jibril Adamu v. United States Second Circuit 2025-10-24 Pending confrontation-clause criminal-procedure drug-trafficking extraterritorial-application sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay Whether the crime of possession with intent to distribute under 21 U.S.C. §959(c)(2) applies extraterritorially and whether a non-testifying analyst's…
24A172 Evan Wald v. New York New York 2024-08-13 Presumed Complete autopsy-report confrontation-clause criminal-evidence cross-examination sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay Whether an autopsy report created during a homicide investigation constitutes 'testimonial' evidence under the Confrontation Clause requiring the oppo…
23-7672 Andrew Culler v. Ohio Ohio 2024-06-07 Denied IFP confrontation-clause due-process medical-examination sexual-assault sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay victim-statements The admission of testimonial hearsay violates the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause
23-6763 Armani L. Moore v. Illinois Illinois 2024-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure evidence evidence-law memory-loss sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay unavailable-witness witness-unavailability Whether a declarant is 'unavailable to testify' for purposes of the Sixth Amendment
22-6293 Dkyle Jamal Bridges v. United States Third Circuit 2022-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment automobile-exception confrontation-clause confrontation-right fourth-amendment franks-hearing plain-view sentencing-factors sex-trafficking testimonial-hearsay Did the automobile exception to the Fourth Amendment justify the warrantless search of Petitioner's vehicle?
21-8139 Duenta Grier v. Georgia Georgia 2022-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP availability confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process government-agent minors testimonial-hearsay witness-availability Was the Confrontation Clause violated?
21-210 Wisconsin v. Mark D. Jensen Wisconsin 2021-08-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) confrontation-clause criminal-procedure domestic-abuse emergency-exception future-crime ongoing-emergency sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay Can a person's statement expressing fear about a possible future crime be testimonial under the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause?
20-8307 Lamar McKnight v. Josie Gastelo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process evidence expert-testimony gang-enhancement gang-expert jury-instruction natural-probable-consequences right-to-confront testimonial-hearsay Should a COA have been granted to decide if the trial court's admission of the gang expert's testimonial hearsay deprived McKnight of his right to con…
20-6820 Eljarod Lawson v. California California 2021-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-immunity due-process sexual-assault sixth-amendment sixth-fourteenth-amendment testimonial-hearsay witness-unavailability Was the Sixth Amendment right of confrontation violated?
20-637 Darrell Hemphill v. New York New York 2020-11-10 Judgment Issued Amici (14)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence evidence-law hearsay-exception right-to-confrontation testimonial-hearsay trial-strategy Whether, or under what circumstances, a criminal defendant who opens the door to responsive evidence also forfeits his right to exclude evidence other…
20-6141 David William Smith v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof confrontation-clause evidence-rule-701 expert-testimony hearsay-evidence law-enforcement-testimony lay-opinion professional-experience rule-701 rule-702 testimonial-hearsay When can law enforcement officers offer lay opinions based on professional experience?
20-5297 Demarius Bridges v. Illinois Illinois 2020-08-07 Denied IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-testimony right-to-confrontation sixth-amendment standing testimonial-hearsay unavailable-witness Can unconfrented testimonial hearsay be used as hearsay admission at trial?
19-7485 Michael J. Aguon v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-crawford-v-washington crawford-v-washington due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel gang-expert ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-v-arizona miranda-warnings police-investigation police-officer-gang-expert prosecutorial-misconduct testimonial-hearsay Whether the prosecution's gang expert's hearsay testimony violated Crawford v. Washington
19-7218 Oscar Amezcua Cabrera v. California California 2020-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-principles crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington due-process dying-declaration-exception fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hearsay hearsay-exception hearsay-rule prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay whether-dying-declaration-exception-overrides-crawford-v-washington
19-6503 Pedro Jorge Moreno-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause deportation fifth-amendment fifth-circuit immigration supreme-court testimonial-hearsay warrant-of-removal Is an immigration officer's signature on a warrant of removal attesting that he witnessed the alien depart the United States testimonial hearsay subje…
19-6294 Alexander Mattei v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk First Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence expert-testimony hearsay sixth-amendment surrogate-analyst testimonial-evidence testimonial-hearsay trial-procedure Whether there is ability to cross-examine a surrogate analyst at a jury trial who had used another's certified and testimonial DNA results ipse dixit,…
19-5895 Lavar Eady v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP chemical-composition confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony forensic-evidence lab-testing substitute-analyst testimonial-hearsay truth-of-the-matter Whether the Confrontation Clause prohibits a substitute state analyst from testifying at trial as to the composition of a seized substance obtained as…
18-8862 Roderick White v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-04-17 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation crawford-v-washington cross-examination due-process evidence memory-loss testimonial-hearsay united-states-v-owens Whether the rule of United States v. Owens, 484 U.S. 554 (1988), as used by courts to admit testimonial hearsay from witnesses not amenable to cross-e…
18-5778 Jon Duke DePriest v. Pam Bondi, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus hearsay sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay Whether petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses against him were violated
18-5173 Wilberth Medina Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure deportation due-process evidence-law hearsay immigration immigration-law sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence testimonial-hearsay Whether an immigration officer's formalized statements relating the fact of an alien's removal constitute testimonial hearsay for the purposes of anal…