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25A460 George Sharrod Johns v. Georgia Georgia 2025-10-22 Application confrontation-clause criminal-procedure expert-testimony forensic-pathology sixth-amendment testimonial-statements Whether a substitute expert witness's testimony based on an absent analyst's testimonial statements violates a criminal defendant's Confrontation Clau…
24-7155 John Fitzgerald Gayles v. Arizona Arizona 2025-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP arizona-rules-of-evidence fraudulent-evidence jury-trial state-evidence testimonial-statements trial-court-discretion Whether the trial court abused its discretion when it erroneously allowed the State of Arizona to admit testimonial state-ments and fraudulent evidenc…
24-985 Ohio v. Garry Smith Ohio 2025-03-14 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process emergency-doctrine hearsay-exception testimonial-statements Whether statements made to responding officers during emergency medical care are nontestimonial under the Confrontation Clause when lacking investigat…
24-6389 Kalontae Carter, aka Kelontae Carter v. Doug Luneke, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-01-24 Denied IFP accomplice-testimony confrontation-clause criminal-procedure out-of-court-statements sixth-amendment testimonial-statements Whether the Confrontation Clause prohibits the introduction of non-testifying accomplice statements that directly implicate the accused
24-6101 Halim Khan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-prosecution due-process interpreter-testimony sixth-amendment testimonial-statements Whether translated out-of-court testimonial statements may be admitted without violating the Confrontation Clause when an interpreter is deemed an age…
24-5913 Lili Zhang Tydingco v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-11-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alien-harboring-act confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-prosecution cross-examination testimonial-statements Whether translated out-of-court testimonial statements may be admitted without violating the Confrontation Clause when the interpreter is deemed an ag…
24-330 Cid C. Franklin v. New York New York 2024-09-24 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) bail-report confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination sixth-amendment testimonial-statements Whether the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause applies to out-of-court statements admitted as evidence against criminal defendants if the statemen…
23-7711 Philong Nghia Huynh v. J. Lizarraga Ninth Circuit 2024-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial forensic-nurse sixth-amendment surrogate-nurse surrogate-testimony testimonial-statements testimony Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment permits the prosecution in a criminal trial to present testimony by a surrogate nurse conveyin…
23-7592 Ynedra Diggs v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruton-rule bruton-v-united-states co-defendant-statements confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment fifth-circuit testimonial-evidence testimonial-statements unavailable-witnesses Was Ms. Diggs's constitutional right to confrontation violated?
23-6618 Mabior M. Mabior v. Nebraska Nebraska 2024-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review confrontation-clause cross-examination hearsay hearsay-exception ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment testimonial-statement testimonial-statements Is a defendant's right to confrontation under the Sixth Amendment violated when testimonial statements are admitted for the truth of the matters asser…
23-6559 Marcus Johnson v. Randy Irwin, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. Third Circuit 2024-01-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-deference confrontation-clause due-process expert-testimony expert-witness judicial-review prejudice prejudice-standard self-defense sixth-amendment testimonial-statements Did the Third Circuit err in deferring to the District Court's finding that Mr. Johnson suffered no prejudice from the Confrontation violation that oc…
23-5238 John Edward Scott v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-jurisprudence federal-rules-of-evidence machine-generated-data machine-produced-data supreme-court-jurisprudence testimonial-evidence testimonial-statements Who has the burden to show that a report sought to be introduced includes 'raw, machine produced data' and not testimonial statements triggering the C…
22-7075 Dennis Morgan Hicks v. Alabama Alabama 2023-03-22 Denied IFP child-witnesses confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-defendant hearsay prior-statements sixth-amendment testimonial-statements witness-testimony Whether a criminal defendant is deprived of his Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses against him
22-885 South Carolina v. Angela D. Brewer South Carolina 2023-03-15 Denied confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure expert-testimony forensic-evidence forensic-pathology melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts ohio-v-clark sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence testimonial-statements Whether lab results requested not by law enforcement but by a forensic pathologist to assist in making a routine cause of death determination are test…
22-6561 Telly Hankton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause conspiracy-liability criminal-procedure federal-circuit-courts forfeiture-by-wrongdoing sixth-amendment standard-of-proof testimonial-statements What standard of proof is required for the admission of prior testimonial statements under the forfeiture-by-wrongdoing exception to the Confrontation…
21-8237 Odece Dempsean Hill v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington forensic-nurse-examiner melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts ninth-circuit sexual-assault sexual-assault-victim testimonial-statements Whether the Confrontation Clause permits the prosecution to introduce the testimonial statements of a non-testifying sexual-assault-victim lay-witness
21-5398 Scott Estes v. United States First Circuit 2021-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process emergency-call evidence hearsay-exception sixth-amendment testimonial-statements Did the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit fail to correctly apply the objective primary purpose test for testimonial statements mad…
20-8312 Ronald Delester Burke v. Washington Washington 2021-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination nurse-examiner sexual-assault sexual-assault-nurse-examiner sixth-amendment testimonial-statements Does the Confrontation Clause prohibit a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner from testifying about statements made during a forensic examination by an adult…
20-8151 Marcus D. Williams v. California California 2021-05-26 Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility forensic-evidence forensic-testing hearsay hearsay-evidence testimonial-statement testimonial-statements What degree of formality is necessary before hearsay statements contained within a forensic testing report which connect an accused to the testing res…
20-8099 Joseph Reinwand v. Susan Novak, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment testimonial-statements Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals failed to apply the law on deceased out-of-court testimonial statements by a non-testifying witness, ther…
20-7990 Jose Meza v. Stuart Sherman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruton-v-united-states co-defendant-statements co-defendants confrontation-clause constitutional-procedure crawford-v-washington criminal-evidence informant ninth-circuit-interpretation testimonial testimonial-statements Did the Ninth Circuit err in holding that Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004) effectively and silently overruled Bruton v. United States, 391 U…
20-6918 Richard Moseley, Sr. v. United States Second Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-law confrontation-clause criminal-law due-process fair-warning overfederalization-of-criminal-law rico rico-statute testimonial-statements unlawful-debt Whether a defendant is provided fair warning under due process when a federal statute is applied to create a federal crime of conduct otherwise lawful…
20-5805 Ian Resnick v. United States Third Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process fraud-loss overview-testimony sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment testimonial-statements Whether the Confrontation Clause permits the admission of an accuser's statement against a criminal defendant under the guise of 'overview testimony'
20-5665 Nathaniel Marcus Gann v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility habeas-corpus testimonial-statements Is the admission of irrelevant or overtly prejudicial evidence a due process violation?
20-317 Dakai Chavis v. Delaware Delaware 2020-09-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) confrontation-clause criminal-procedure dna-evidence evidence-admissibility multi-analyst-testing out-of-court-statements testimonial-statements Whether the Confrontation Clause permits DNA evidence obtained as the result of a multi-analyst testing process to be introduced against the defendant…
19-8607 Derrick Thompson v. Patrick Griffin, Superintendent, Sullivan Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2020-06-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause fair-trial forensic-analysis forensic-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-fair-trial sixth-amendment speedy-trial testimonial-evidence testimonial-statements Does the Confrontation Clause permit the introduction of testimonial identification statements of a non-testifying forensic analyst?
19-7932 Enrique Auch v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2020-03-10 Denied IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence-law feigning memory-loss out-of-court-statements sixth-amendment testimonial-statements witness-testimony Whether the Confrontation Clause permits the prosecution to introduce out-of-court testimonial statements from a witness who is feigning memory loss a…
19-7599 Tracey Smith-Kilpatrick v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP business-records confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington evidence-rule federal-rule-of-evidence-803(6) federal-rules-of-evidence government-use hearsay hearsay-exception record-reliability sixth-circuit testimonial-statement testimonial-statements Whether business records qualify as inadmissible hearsay
19-7097 Juan Sanchez v. California California 2019-12-30 Denied IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process out-of-court-statements prior-testimony testimonial-statements trial-evidence witness-memory witness-testimony Whether a defendant in a criminal case is denied the opportunity for full and effective cross-examination in violation of the Confrontation Clause
19-6493 Theresa Gail Scanlan v. Washington Washington 2019-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP accuser confrontation-clause criminal-procedure medical-evidence medical-personnel police-interrogation police-involvement prosecutorial-purpose prosecutorial-use sixth-amendment testimonial testimonial-statements Are statements to medical personnel testimonial under the Confrontation Clause when the accuser is aware of their prosecutorial purpose?
19-5936 Cesar Rosario Lopez-Ramos v. Minnesota Minnesota 2019-09-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination foreign-language-interpreter police-interrogation sixth-amendment testimonial-statements translation-evidence Whether the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause permits the prosecution to introduce testimonial statements in the form of an unidentified foreign …
19-6 New York v. Jahmarley Jones New York 2019-06-28 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure gang-evidence police-investigation police-investigations sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence testimonial-statements Whether statements made by individuals during routine police investigations — prior to the commission of a specific crime, the identification of a sus…
18-9428 Robert L. Jenkins v. Pelicia E. Hall, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction bullcoming-v-new-mexico civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law forensic-evidence judicial-review melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts testimonial-statements Whether the testimonial statements of witnesses about forensic testing may be admitted only where the declarant is unavailable, and only where the def…
18-8902 Gustav Kloszewski v. United States Second Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation Crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility precedent sixth-amendment testimonial-statements Did the lower court fail to follow this Court's precedent in Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004)?
18-8379 John Anthony Dobbs v. Texas Texas 2019-03-11 Denied IFP civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation crawford-standard crawford-v-washington due-process evidence forensic-evidence medical-examination medical-forensic medical-forensic-purpose sane-nurse sane-nurse-examination testimonial-statement testimonial-statements Whether statements obtained during a 'sane nurse' examination have become 'testimonial' for purposes of the Confrontation Clause under Crawford v. Was…
18-6060 James Chavez v. Robert LeGrand, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington cross-examination hearsay-exception preliminary-hearing sixth-amendment testimonial-statements witness-unavailability Whether a prosecution can admit prior testimonial statements, including a video-taped interview, of a witness that died prior to trial and where defen…