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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-7186 Daniel Ray Mann v. Doug Clark, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony plain-error plain-error-review procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct vouching Whether the state court's admission of 'vouching' testimony from a police officer expert witness violated the defendant's due process rights under the…
22-6909 Curtis Lynn Fauber v. Ronald Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-03-02 Denied IFP curative-instructions donnelly-v-dechristoforo due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-vouching vouching witness-credibility Did the Ninth Circuit's opinion create a conflict with this Court's decision in Donnelly v. DeChristoforo, 416 U.S. 637 (1974), under which specific c…
22-6747 Jimmy Wayne Guinard v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-02-10 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fair-trial jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing vouching Did the Trial Judge's labeling petitioner as a sex offender to the jury when he had never been charged with such offenses and was charged with drug of…
20-6025 Steven McManus v. Mary Vann, Superintendent, Altona Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied IFP burden-of-proof emotional-appeals evidence-mischaracterization fair-trial inflammatory-statements prosecutorial-misconduct vouching witness-vouching Whether the cumulative effect of the prosecutor's actions deprived the petitioner of a fair trial?
19-8479 Bernard J. Fleming v. United States District of Columbia 2020-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP closing-arguments criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial personal-opinion prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-vouching vouching witness-credibility When do comments by a prosecutor in her final and rebuttal arguments to the jury in a criminal case that affirm the veracity of the government's chief…
19-702 Alen Dean O'Bryant v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-12-03 Denied credibility due-process evidentiary-bolstering minor minor-witness physical-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-assault vouching witness-credibility Does Due Process prohibit a State from presenting multiple witnesses and the prosecutor from vouching for the credibility of a minor complaining witne…
18-7702 George Reese v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-violations due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct vouching Whether the prosecutor committed misconduct