witness-bias
7 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6560 | Tony Daniel Klein v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-13 | Pending | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-defense criminal-procedure evidence-exclusion sixth-amendment witness-bias | Does a court violate a criminal defendant's constitutional right to present a defense by excluding circumstantial evidence, and does limiting cross-ex… |
| 24-1265 | Glenn E. Diaz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-12 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-procedure cross-examination judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent witness-bias | Whether a district court can completely bar defense counsel from cross-examining a key government witness on an issue probative of bias and motive, an… |
| 24-5534 | Anthony Wayne Hawkins v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause cooperating-witness due-process law-enforcement-database pretextual-stop witness-bias | Whether the Confrontation Clause permits cross-examination of a cooperating witness regarding the extent of benefits received and whether due process … |
| 23-7774 | Pablo Santana Arellano v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-21 | Denied | IFP | co-conspirator-testimony co-conspirators confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-procedure sentencing-agreements sixth-amendment witness-bias | Whether defendants may be prohibited from asking cooperating witnesses and former co-conspirators about their sentences and sentencing agreements to e… |
| 23-6420 | Orlando S. Burgos v. Martin Gamboa, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bias confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination habeas-corpus harmless-error motive-to-lie sole-evidence witness-bias | Whether a Confrontation Clause error can ever be harmless when an accused is prevented from cross-examining the key government witness—a witness who s… |
| 23-6023 | David Sattazahn v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-disclosure brady-violation due-process giglio-disclosure giglio-v-united-states habeas-corpus plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct united-states-v-bagley witness-bias witness-inducement | Whether prosecutors must disclose inducements provided to witnesses, even in the absence of an agreement with express terms |
| 18-6475 | Lewis Wright v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2018-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination cross-examination-rights due-process evidence-disclosure fourteenth-amendment parole perjury prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-bias | Whether the court of common pleas erred in limiting Mr. Stein's ability to establish witness Joseph Farley's bias |