unavailable-witness
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-1045 | Charles Albert Massey v. Joseph Walters, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2026-03-04 | Pending | Response Waived | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination habeas-corpus preliminary-hearing unavailable-witness | Does the Confrontation Clause allow the Petitioner to be convicted at trial—using preliminary hearing testimony of an unavailable witness—of an offens… |
| 24A623 | Bruce E. Alexander v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-12-23 | Presumed Complete | corroborating-circumstances criminal-procedure evidence-rule-804 exculpatory-statement hearsay-exception unavailable-witness | Question not identified. | |
| 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, and as that phrase is used in Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36… |
| 22-5754 | Jamal Laurent v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-conviction district-court insufficient-evidence joint-trial joint-trials missing-witness missing-witness-instruction rico-act rico-statute unavailable-witness warrantless-seizure witness-statement | 1. Whether RICO is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. §924(c)? 2. Whether the district court erred when it admitted Merritt's statements or alternat… |
| 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 | 2. Can unconfronted testimonial hearsay be used to secure the admission at trial of other unconfronted testimonial hearsay? 3. Did the state fail to … |