unavailability

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-6479 Sterling H. Roberts v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure declarant-unavailability forfeiture-by-wrongdoing mixed-motives primary-purpose sixth-amendment unavailability Whether the prosecution must prove the defendant's primary purpose for making the declarant unavailable was to prevent their testimony in the proceedi…
21-7854 Michael G. Peters v. David Hittner, Judge Fifth Circuit 2022-05-13 Dismissed IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination hearsay sixth-amendment unavailability Whether the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause prohibits the admission of testimonial hearsay statements in a criminal trial when the declarant is…
19-361 Renado Smith and Richard Delancy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-18 Denied Amici (3) confrontation-clause criminal-evidence criminal-procedure custody-release deposition-testimony due-process good-faith-effort investigative-steps prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-procedure sixth-amendment testimonial-statement unavailability witness-unavailability Whether the government makes a good-faith effort to obtain a witness's presence at trial
18-6827 Eric Williams v. New York New York 2018-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP barber-v-page confrontation-clause criminal-procedure deportation good-faith-effort significant-public-benefit-parole sixth-amendment unavailability witness-testimony Whether prosecutors may dispense with the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment, and may be relieved of the obligation recognized in Barber v. P…