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… |