witness-immunity

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-7034 Michael Carter v. Megan Hayes, et al. Third Circuit 2024-03-20 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process government-employee judicial-misconduct judicial-proceeding qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity witness-immunity Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's 42 U.S.C. 1983 civil rights claim on the basis of sovereign immunity
23-485 Jesus Arley Munera-Gomez v. United States First Circuit 2023-11-08 Denied compulsory-process constitutional-rights due-process entrapment entrapment-defense government-misconduct prosecutorial-discretion self-incrimination use-immunity witness-immunity witness-testimony Whether a defendant is constitutionally entitled to obtain use immunity for a witness
22-785 Theryn Jones v. United States Second Circuit 2023-02-21 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment immunity self-incrimination sixth-amendment witness witness-immunity when-the-due-process-clause-requires-vacatur-of-a-criminal-conviction-based-on-the-government's-refusal-to-seek-immunity-for-a-defense-witness
21-440 Miguel Angel Santana v. Maryland Maryland 2021-09-22 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived constitutional-integrity constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony government-misconduct immunity-agreements prosecutorial-misconduct witness-immunity Whether a government witness's uncorrected false testimony about immunity agreements violates due-process when the government informs defense-counsel …
20-5357 Anthony Collymore v. Connecticut Connecticut 2020-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process due-process fair-trial immunity prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination statutory-immunity witness-immunity Whether the petitioner's rights to due process of law, compulsory process and fair trial were violated
19-5614 Robert Ricks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process criminal-procedure defense-witness due-process fifth-amendment immunity perjury perjury-threat prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-immunity witness-intimidation Whether the grant of use and derivative use immunity to a defense witness cured the government's misconduct when the case agent threatened the defense…
18-772 Erasmo Aviles, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence exculpatory-testimony government-interests immunity prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination witness-immunity Does due process require a court to compel the government, on pain of dismissal, to seek immunity for an essential defense witness if government's int…
18-257 Monty Bauch, Individually and as Father and Next Friend of O. B., a Minor, et al. v. Richland County Children Services, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-08-30 Denied child-removal civil-rights complaining-witness due-process due-process-rights ex-parte ex-parte-order magistrate-testimony qualified-immunity removal-order social-worker social-worker-immunity standing witness-immunity Whether a social worker is entitled to absolute immunity when she makes false statements and omits highly relevant information as a complaining witnes…