witness-intimidation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A808 In Re Esaias Joseph Menasi Eighth Circuit 2026-01-13 Application due-process evidence-tampering ex-parte-communication judicial-misconduct supreme-court witness-intimidation Question not identified.
24-6274 Samreen Riaz v. Altura Centers for Health California 2025-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP amendment-violation court-bias judicial-discretion motion-in-limine procedural-error witness-intimidation Whether the California Supreme Court and lower courts committed procedural errors and showed bias in multiple stages of a legal proceeding involving m…
24A83 Rian G. Waters v. Meta Platforms, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-23 Presumed Complete civil-rights-conspiracy federal-proceeding pro-se-litigation section-1985 state-action witness-intimidation Whether a pro se plaintiff can establish a viable civil rights conspiracy claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1985(2) when alleging witness intimidation and obstr…
23-7250 Rian Waters v. Aidan Kearney Massachusetts 2024-04-18 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-complaint criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion obstruction-of-justice standing state-prosecution witness-intimidation Standing-to-appeal-criminal-complaint
23A589 Rian Waters v. Aidan Kearney Massachusetts 2023-12-27 Presumed Complete article-iii-standing constitutional-rights criminal-prosecution fair-trial first-amendment witness-intimidation Whether a private citizen has Article III standing to seek criminal prosecution for witness intimidation when the alleged harassment threatens the cit…
22-5849 David Keith Wills v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process conflict-of-interest defense-witness dual-sovereignty due-process fair-trial federal-prosecutors perjury prosecutorial-misconduct witness-intimidation whether-federal-prosecutors-can-threaten-defense-witnesses
21-1548 Courtney L. Rainey v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-06-09 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-investigation due-process false-information first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech witness-intimidation Whether a conviction under a state witness intimidation statute violates the First Amendment and Due Process Clause
21-5820 Hector Manuel Bossio v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process evidence-destruction federal-jurisdiction silver-platter witness-intimidation Whether the government's use of coercive relationships with federal agencies to obtain evidence violates the Constitution's due process and silver pla…
21-5308 Calvin B. Lynch v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2021-08-05 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-law statutory-interpretation witness-intimidation witness-testimony Is petitioner entitled to the Pennsylvania courts' clarifying interpretation of the witness intimidation statute, Pa.C.S.A.§4952, under which petition…
20-6433 Byron Jones v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP assault-with-dangerous-weapon criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy evidence-admission fifth-circuit-court jury-instructions murder-in-aid-of-racketeering pattern-of-racketeering rico-conspiracy rico-enterprise witness-intimidation Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in finding Byron Jones guilty of a RICO conspiracy?
19-5890 Fernando Cabral-Varela v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights courtroom-access courtroom-closure criminal-procedure due-process public-trial sixth-amendment structural-error witness-intimidation Did the judge deprive the Petitioner of his right to a public trial under the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
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…
18-7223 Jesse Lloyd Hall v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 barefoot-standard coerced-confession due-process federal-review habeas-corpus police-misconduct recantation state-writ-petition victim-recantation victim-rights witness-intimidation Whether federal courts must take the allegations of a state writ petition as true when weighing if the state's denial was objectively unreasonable
18-5807 Peter R. Rubens v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied IFP brady brady-violation cross-examination due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment structural-error witness-intimidation Does Webb v. Texas apply when it is the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office who systematically threatens, coerces, intimidates, and actually off…
18-5113 Solomon V. Hester v. Kevin Sprayberry Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 brady-claim brady-violation direct-appeal due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-misconduct witness-intimidation witness-tampering Did the petitioner receive constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel?