| 25-6624 |
Ryan Adelbert Johnson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-01-20 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process impartial-jury reasonable-doubt trial-evidence |
I. Whether the Due Process Clause of the 5th Amendment was violated when no rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of Counts 1… |
| 25-6364 |
Joshua Luckey v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2025-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-right due-process false-allegations fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment trial-evidence |
Did the trial court violate Luckey's Sixth Amendment right to confrontation and his XIV Amendment right to due process when evidence showing prior fal… |
| 25-664 |
Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections v. Justin Michael Wolfe |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-08 |
Pending |
|
actual-innocence factfinder-standard habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence schlup-standard trial-evidence |
Whether the "new" evidence required to make an actual-innocence claim under Schlup v. Delo, 513 U.S. 298 (1995), includes only newly discovered eviden… |
| 25-580 |
Gary Richard Whitton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-17 |
Pending |
Amici (2) |
appellate-review constitutional-error giglio-violation habeas-corpus prejudice-standard trial-evidence |
1. Whether in determining whether a constitutional error had a prejudicial effect on the outcome of a trial a court must consider only that evidence t… |
| 25A394 |
Gary Richard Whitton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-06 |
Presumed Complete |
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dna-evidence giglio-error habeas-corpus harmless-error jury-verdict trial-evidence |
Whether a federal court may assess the harmlessness of a Giglio error by considering post-trial DNA evidence not presented to the original jury, rathe… |
| 23-6496 |
Irvin Harris Johnson v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-client-privilege criminal-procedure evidence-seizure prejudice pretrial-detention right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-evidence work-product-doctrine work-product-privilege |
Whether the government's seizure and use at trial of a pretrial detainee's notes reflecting his defense strategy for discussion with counsel violates … |
| 23-6179 |
Anibal Miranda-Montanez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review case-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-instructions legal-sufficiency procedural-challenge standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-evidence verdict-challenge |
Whether the evidence was insufficient for the verdict to stand |
| 22-7400 |
Maurice Morrison v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2023-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-protection jury-deliberations jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-evidence |
Whether a juror's communication to the jury during deliberations of highly prejudicial specialized factual information that was based on his professio… |
| 22-6016 |
Sheila Gray v. City of Detroit, Michigan |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure court-discretion judicial-error jury-verdict overturning-verdict standard-of-review substantial-evidence trial-evidence trial-procedure weight-of-evidence witness-testimony |
Whether Appellant presents substantial evidence that the unanimous jury verdict goes against the great weight of the evidence presented at trial and s… |
| 21-8288 |
William Jack Parkerson v. Oregon |
Oregon |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accomplice-instructions court-of-appeals due-process federal-standard harmless-error oregon-court-of-appeals trial-evidence trial-procedure |
Did the oregon court of appeals apply the correct federal harmless error standard violating Due Process, when viewing the evidence at trial when it de… |
| 20-1281 |
Byron Dredd v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-1001 18-usc-1519 18-usc-241 acquittal civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy false-statements religious-communication trial-evidence |
Whether petitioner's acquittals on two counts should have been admitted into evidence in petitioner's retrial |
| 20-6545 |
Michael Meadows v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure cumulative-error-doctrine drug-enforcement drug-profile-testimony due-process evidence expert-testimony judicial-procedure legal-admissibility trial-evidence trial-practice |
Does drug profile testimony have any legitimate use as trial evidence? |
| 19-8088 |
Antonio Rodrigues v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2020-03-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-due-process criminal-element due-process felony-murder judicial-determination judicial-fact-finding maximum-sentence predicate-felony sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence trial-evidence |
Does the Constitution prohibit a State to define a crime to include an element that is to be decided by a judge without evidence; and where the State … |
| 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 |
| 18-9806 |
Karlynn Romeo Tones, Donta Lyvoid Blackmon, and Arvin Terrill Carmen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment indictment-specificity jury-instructions jury-unanimity trial-evidence unanimity |
Do federal criminal defendants have a constitutional right to a specific unanimity instruction requiring the jury to unanimously define the duration a… |
| 18-7330 |
Michael Anthony Garrett v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-theory due-process evidence fifth-amendment jury-instructions right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment trial-evidence |
Whether a defendant's constitutional right to present a defense encompasses the right to have the jury instructed on a theory of defense that constitu… |
| 18-858 |
James McCullars v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
advertisement advertising-statute communication-privacy criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-interpretation notice notice-and-advertisement private-communications statutory-interpretation trial-evidence |
Whether the proof at trial which established that petitioner was only engaged in private, closed communications — either one-to-one, or among a small … |
| 18-326 |
Estate of Bernice Goldberg by Executor Gary Goldberg v. Philip Nimoityn, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
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civil-procedure due-process expert-testimony federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure perjury procedural-due-process sanctions trial-evidence |
Is a federal court required to follow the federal Rules of Civil Procedure and procedural due process, which mandate that an expert's report and depos… |
| 18-5143 |
Robert Graham v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
admissibility batson-vs-kentucky criminal-procedure due-process fingerprinting fingerprinting-expert identification identification-testimony preliminary-hearing reliability trial-evidence witness-credibility |
Is an in-court identification of the defendant as the robber admissible at trial in the absence of a due process hearing to first determine the reliab… |