witness-identification

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6855 Eric Rogers v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP curative-instructions due-process fourteenth-amendment pretrial-conduct trial-court witness-identification Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment require a new trial when a witness's in-court identification of the defendant is tainted by su…
24-5270 Patrick Douglas Johnson v. Texas Texas 2024-08-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-review due-process evidence-sufficiency jackson-v-virginia witness-identification Whether the use of selective evidence constitutes an impermissible divide and conquer strategy for evaluating evidence sufficiency under the 14th Amen…
23-6859 Andrew Smart v. Jamie LaManna Second Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure district-court-procedure due-process evidence federal-courts federal-law habeas-corpus witness-identification Whether the Courts below determination that the witnesses Identification was not unduly suggestive, was contrary to clearly established Federal Taw §2…
23-6567 Jonathan David Wilke v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2024-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture harmless-error lineup photo-array witness-identification Was the Wisconsin Court of Appeals decision an erroneous application of law?
23-5505 Jacques Lamar Walker v. Virginia Virginia 2023-08-31 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP bank-robbery criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment trial-court witness-identification Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia erred in refusing to reverse petitioner Jacques Lamar Walker's convictions
22-7281 Steven Ray Rouse v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-04-13 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights discovery discovery-violations due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct witness-identification How could lawyer (Rick Farqutte) send Steven Ray Rouse at discovery of 3 facts and 1? were duplicates?
22-6782 Richard Leon Wilbern v. United States Second Circuit 2023-02-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment appellate-standard constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment standard-of-review witness-identification wrongful-convictions Whether courts of appeals should review de novo a district court's determination that an identification is constitutionally reliable
21-7150 Michael Cameron v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-02-17 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification misidentification right-to-defense right-to-present-defense showup-lineup suggestive-lineup witness-identification Did the trial court err in allowing the uncorroborated showup identifications at Cameron's trial?
21-5282 Tyrius Green v. Andrew J. Bruck, Acting Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2021-08-03 Denied IFP due-process eyewitness-identification jury-instructions reasonable-doubt structural-error sullivan-v-united-states trial-by-jury trial-procedure witness-identification Whether giving a jury charge on eye witness identification that lacked a factual basis in the evidence produced at trial was contrary to clearly estab…
21-5140 Gabriel Elijah Kane Arkinson, aka Daniel Elijahkane Arkinson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP accomplice-testimony acquittal-standard criminal-procedure due-process evidence motion-for-acquittal ninth-circuit-review rule-29-motion witness-credibility witness-identification Whether the presumptive force of the rule that the testimony of an accomplice is sufficient to convict is a lawful substitute for this Court's rules g…
20-8430 Samuel Gayden v. Illinois Illinois 2021-06-24 Denied IFP chain-of-custody criminal-procedure dna-evidence evidence-admissibility fair-trial ineffective-assistance jury-instructions lay-opinion prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure witness-identification Whether the State misused DNA evidence to link Petitioner to the weapon used in the offense, and to alleged threatening letters sent from the Cook Cou…
20-1796 Justin Strolis v. Lucas Heise Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-24 Denied civil-rights co-defendant-identification fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause qualified-immunity summary-judgment witness-identification Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in applying a presumption of credibility to a co-defendant's identification of the plaintiff in a malicious prosecu…
20-7433 Randy Philip Chaudron v. Texas Texas 2021-03-11 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence identification law-enforcement-misconduct photo-lineup police-conduct witness-identification Whether the Due Process Clause was violated when the trial court allowed evidence, knowing that law enforcement broke the procedure of Art. 320 CP pho…
20-7249 Derrick Miles v. Illinois Illinois 2021-02-25 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-appeal due-process eyewitness-identification fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-procedure witness-identification Whether the State of Illinois Appellate Court ruling denying petitioner's claim
20-7074 Jimmy Lee Nave, Jr. v. Frank Vanihel, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-02-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause warrantless-arrest witness-identification Did the District Court err by relying on evidence received after Mr. Nave's warrantless arrest to determine the veracity of statements made by the aff…
19-5802 Travis Wade Matthews v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-testing due-process identification jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia mccoy-v-louisiana victim-identification witness-identification whether-dna-testing-is-client-choice
19-5334 Martel Valencia-Cortez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence eyewitness-identification jury-instruction jury-instructions reliability-factors standing trial-error trial-procedure witness-identification Whether a district court commits error in a federal criminal case by failing to provide a specific eyewitness identification instruction
19-5263 Miah Stroud v. Shawn Brewer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right-to-defense constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony expert-witness felonious-assault insufficient-evidence misidentification police-influence prosecutorial-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct second-degree-murder sufficiency-of-evidence witness-identification Did the courts erroneously deny Ms. Stroud's constitutional right to due process when she was convicted of second degree murder and three counts of fe…
18-7757 William Davenport v. James Falk, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied IFP criminal-procedure dna dna-evidence dna-testing due-process evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel res-gestae witness-identification Whether trial court erred in admitting evidence of DNA testing from mixed samples
18-7655 Michael R. Spengler v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied IFP 6th-amendment appellate-standard civil-rights coercion constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process miranda-warnings police-lineup undercover-operations witness-identification Whether the widespread policy of the L.A. Superior Court and the L.A. Sheriff's Department, known as the Perkins Operation, which allows undercover ag…
18-6656 Timothy Kyle Prince v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process eyewitness-identification fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment suggestive-identification suggestive-procedures unreliable-identification witness-identification Whether petitioner was denied of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to a fair trial, due process
18-5438 Ulriste Tulin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence-reliability federal-rules-of-evidence kidnapping new-trial out-of-court-identification suggestive-procedure witness-identification Is an out-of-court identification of a defendant unduly suggestive and unreliable?