| 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… |