witness-impeachment

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6208 Matthew Peckham v. Rhode Island Rhode Island 2025-11-24 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP bias-evidence cross-examination fourteenth-amendment juvenile-records sixth-amendment witness-impeachment 1. Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments permit a state court to bar all cross-examination of a key prosecution witness concerning her own juven…
25-237 Bruce Mason v. Delaware, et al. Third Circuit 2025-08-28 Denied Response Waived brady-violation circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process prosecutorial-disclosure witness-impeachment 1. Whether the State's failure to disclose that its centerpiece witness was admitted to a psychiatric hospital prior to testifying, which was discover…
25-5322 Derrick Lloyd v. Robert Morton Second Circuit 2025-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process ineffective-assistance race-testimony strickland-standard witness-impeachment Whether Certiorari should be granted to resolve a conflict between the Court of Appeals Second Circuit and the United States District Court, Eastern D…
24-7496 Allen Odell Woods v. Keithe Turner, Warden Fifth Circuit 2025-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-claim criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct witness-impeachment Whether counsel's performance was constitutionally deficient in failing to raise Brady claims, locate key witnesses, impeach state witnesses, and chal…
24-6880 Charles Christopher Wendell v. Florida Florida 2025-03-27 Denied IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-impeachment Whether failure to adequately impeach a witness, challenge other crimes evidence, investigate witnesses, request medical examination, and object to pr…
23-7699 Levoyd A. Jones v. Angela Hunsinger-Stuff, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-06-12 Denied IFP 6th-amendment brady-violation criminal-procedure direct-evidence due-process evidence ineffective-assistance jurisdiction sixth-amendment trial-counsel uncharged-crime witness-impeachment Whether evidence of an uncharged crime can be used as direct evidence
23-7492 Trezith Rashad Smart v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-05-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP federal-rules-of-evidence findings fourth-circuit-court judicial-error motion-to-dismiss prior-inconsistent-statement speedy-trial-act witness-impeachment zedner-v-united-states whether-the-fourth-circuit-appellate-court-commit-clear-or-plain-error
23-6713 Tai A. Pham v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell supreme-court-standards witness-impeachment Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal's analysis of Tai A. Pham's application for a certificate of appealability conflicts with the relevant st…
23-6257 Randall Scott Jordan v. Texas Texas 2023-12-14 Denied IFP brady brady-violation criminal-history due-process impeachment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment suppression-of-evidence witness-credibility witness-impeachment Did the prosecution's suppression or withholding of state's key witness' prior violent criminal history that was favorable to accused for impeachment …
22-7739 Robert L. Swinton, Jr. v. United States Second Circuit 2023-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process firearms-statute jurisdiction speedy-trial standing tenth-amendment witness-impeachment Is 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) constitutional and was Tenth Amendment jurisdiction maintained for firearms alleged in this case?
22-7222 Ray Dansby v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied IFP bias confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process informant jailhouse-informant witness-impeachment Whether preclusion of cross-examination about an informant's propensity for bias violates the Confrontation Clause
22-6077 William Donnell, III v. Eddie Caley, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extrinsic-evidence impeachment lead-detective right-to-present-defense trial-court-error trial-error witness-impeachment Did the trial court violate the defendant's Confrontation Clause rights and right to present a defense?
22-5131 Terry Gillard v. California California 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment witness-impeachment Whether the California court's refusal to allow a witness to be impeached with his federal bank robbery conviction violated petitioner's clearly estab…
21-5687 Darrell Hochhalter v. Jason Clendenion, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment confrontation-clause due-process false-evidence impeachment plain-error recent-fabrication witness-impeachment Does 'recent fabrication' rise to the same significance as 'false evidence' in influencing the fairness of a trial per the 14th Amendment
21-397 Juan Joe Cano v. Texas Texas 2021-09-13 Denied Response Waived contamination-of-accusations due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-inconsistent-statements procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-abuse suggestive-questioning witness-impeachment Was petitioner denied the effective assistance of counsel?
20-8270 Maurice A. Jackson v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-of-appeals criminal-procedure dna-testing evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-standard standard-of-review trial-counsel witness-impeachment Did the third circuit court err in deferring to the Court of Common Pleas finding that Mr. Jackson was not prejudiced by trial counsel not having key …
20-8216 Justin Michael Wilson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation brandishing carjacking carjacking-statute criminal-intent due-process firearm firearm-possession intent prosecutorial-misconduct serious-bodily-injury witness-impeachment Whether there was sufficient evidence to sustain a conviction for carjacking and possession of a firearm in connection with a crime of violence when t…
20-7886 Shirl A. Stephen v. United States District of Columbia 2021-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment sentencing witness-impeachment Whether impeachment of a witness in a criminal trial under D.C. Code § 14-305 requires proof that the witness was actually sentenced for the prior con…
20-7729 Casey Rose v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency-hearing confrontation-clause cooperating-witness cross-examination due-process impeachment indiana-v-edwards self-representation witness-impeachment Whether the termination of cross-examination of a cooperating-witness-with-incentives-to-lie prior to being able to impeach the witness violated the c…
20-6045 Aaron E. Choat v. Rick Coursey, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP collateral-review exculpatory-evidence impeachment ineffective-assistance non-unanimous-jury ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-retroactivity witness-impeachment Whether counsel provides ineffective assistance
20-5905 Travon Jarvel Jackson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence rule-412 rule-608b sex-trafficking sixth-amendment witness-impeachment Whether evidence of prior prostitution activity that is inadmissible under Rule 412 of the Federal Rules of Evidence to rebut a claim of sex trafficki…
18-9666 Jose Hernandez v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment prejudice-standard prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct witness-impeachment Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated
18-9556 Charles R. Willard v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2019-06-05 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability inconsistent-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-illness prejudice prior-convictions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-mitigation trial-counsel witness-credibility witness-impeachment Is the low threshold for a certificate of appealability (COA) met on a claim that trial counsel provided prejudicially deficient performance when coun…
18-9239 Dale Shoop v. Ralph Terry, Acting Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-05-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel preliminary-hearing right-to-testify sixth-amendment victim-testimony witness-impeachment witness-presence witness-testimony Was the Petitioner's Constitutional Sixth Amendment Right to Effective Assistance of Counsel violated
18-6486 In Re Steve G. Hernandez 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP brady-material brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process evidence-suppression impeachment ineffective-assistance perjury witness-impeachment What is the constitutional violation of ineffective assistance of counsel
18-35 Pennsylvania v. Roderick Andre Johnson Pennsylvania 2018-07-05 Denied brady-analysis Brady-materiality confessions constitutional-procedure corroborating-evidence criminal-confession criminal-procedure due-process materiality prosecutorial-disclosure witness-impeachment Whether the prosecution's nondisclosure of arguably impeaching information relating to a witness who linked the defendant with two murders can be mate…