weight-of-evidence

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5917 Thomas Avery Drum v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court-authority judicial-discretion new-trial-motion rule-33 weight-of-evidence When a criminal defendant files a timely motion for a new trial under Rule 33(b)(2), what is the scope of the district court's authority to grant a ne…
24-6265 Ryan A. Fleming, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure guilty-verdict miscarriage-of-justice police-testimony video-evidence weight-of-evidence 1. Whether video evidence refuting police testimony that a defendant personally held a gun required reversal of a guilty verdict as sufficiently again…
23-414 Devon Archer v. United States Second Circuit 2023-10-19 Denied Amici (1) circuit-split criminal-procedure discretion judicial-discretion manifest-injustice new-trial new-trial-standard rule-33 second-circuit weight-of-evidence Whether district courts have discretion under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 33 to order a new trial based on the weight of the evidence, even in …
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…
22-5997 Tarence Kirkland v. New York New York 2022-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing criminal-verdict cross-examination due-process evidence fair-trial identification legal-sufficiency second-degree-offense weight-of-evidence Was the trial court's decision on Rodriguez's identification and use of other crimes and bad acts on cross-examination result in the denial of a fair …
20-6361 Robert L. Davis v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-negotiations post-conviction-review standing weight-of-evidence Whether the weight of the evidence supports the defendant-petitioner's claim that counsel lied about a material issue, resulting in ineffective assist…
20-5282 Alla A. Zorikova v. Realvest, Inc. Missouri 2020-08-05 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial falsified-facts foreign-corporation judicial-discretion missouri-statutes usurious-interest weight-of-evidence Did the Circuit Court deny Petitioner's Constitutional right for fair Trial?
19-7587 Lannon Lavar Burdunice v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal batson bias character-evidence circumstantial-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process evidence incomplete-jury-verdict insufficient-evidence intent-to-kill judicial-error judicial-misconduct jury-instructions jury-verdict prior-convictions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-be-present right-to-present-defense second-degree-murder weight-of-evidence Must my conviction for second degree intentional murder be vacated and a judgement of acquittal entered
19-7480 David Paul Lynch v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-error eleventh-circuit harmless-error hearsay hearsay-statements jury-trial precedent sixth-amendment weight-of-evidence Did the Eleventh Circuit violate this Court's precedent on harmless error
19-7377 Gerald Adger v. New York New York 2020-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appeal appellate-counsel conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-argument procedural-error right-to-counsel trial-counsel weight-of-evidence Was the appellate attorney ineffective assistance of counsel?
18-8644 Emanuel L. Finch, Sr. v. Bradley Graham, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-clause,compulsory-process,miranda-ri consent-to-search constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial materiality-of-false-testimony miranda-rights sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence weight-of-evidence Whether the conduct complained of is a question of law