witness-unavailability
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-1082 | Aghee William Smith, II v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-04-16 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | confrontation-clause constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process trial-rights witness-unavailability | The courts are split on a critical question: Whether a living witness can be "unavailable" under the Confrontation Clause if the government has made n… |
| 23-6763 | Armani L. Moore v. Illinois | Illinois | 2024-02-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure evidence evidence-law memory-loss sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay unavailable-witness witness-unavailability | Whether a declarant is "unavailable to testify" for purposes of the Sixth Amendment, and as that phrase is used in Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36… |
| 23-5199 | Duron B. Peoples v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-07-26 | Denied | IFP | compulsory-process criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts hearsay-exception ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel murder-conspiracy witness-testimony witness-unavailability | 1. IS FEDERAL DUE PROCESS VIOLATED UNDER THE "COMPULSORY PROCESS" WHERE A FEDERAL COURT CONCLUDES THAT A PETITIONER'S COUNSEL INEFFECTIVE CLAIM LACKS … |
| 21-7113 | Gerald Wayne Jako, Jr. v. West Virginia | West Virginia | 2022-02-15 | Denied | IFP | conflict-of-interest criminal-representation cuyler-v-sullivan ineffective-assistance inside-job-theory plea-bargain presumption-of-prejudice sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel staged-crime witness-unavailability | I. Attorney Panepinto made two separate "eleventh hour" disclosures before trial, with the latter discussing his prior representation and social relat… |
| 21-618 | Armand Jones v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2021-10-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | codefendant-conduct codefendant-liability confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-procedure forfeiture-by-wrongdoing sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence witness-unavailability | Whether a defendant forfeits his Sixth Amendment right to confront a witness against him when the defendant did not engage in conduct designed to prev… |
| 21-6012 | Michael Rimmer v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2021-10-20 | Denied | IFP | capital-trial confrontation-clause criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fundamental-fairness prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness witness-unavailability | 1. Whether the courts below erred by upholding the trial court's determination that the only witness to petitioner's purported jailhouse confession wa… |
| 21-5405 | George A. Luna v. Anna Valentine, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights confrontation-clause domestic-violence due-process evidentiary-rule federal-jurisdiction forfeiture-by-wrongdoing hearsay-exception pleadings standing witness-unavailability | Under Giles v., California can a State constitutionally introduce a murder victim's out. of court statements to others about defendant's abuse/ pursua… |
| 20-6820 | Eljarod Lawson v. California | California | 2021-01-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-immunity due-process sexual-assault sixth-amendment sixth-fourteenth-amendment testimonial-hearsay witness-unavailability | A. Was the Sixth Amendment right of confrontation violated when the court allowed the use of the prior transcripted testimony of the complaining witne… |
| 20-5270 | Keith Allen Wilson v. Florida | Florida | 2020-08-05 | Denied | IFP | circumstantial-evidence corpus-delicti delayed-prosecution due-process motion-for-judgment-of-acquittal witness-unavailability | Can the Charlotte County Court of Florida deny a Motion for Judgment of Acquittal, when the State did "not" prove Corpus Delicit of 2"d Degree Murder … |
| 19-361 | Renado Smith and Richard Delancy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-18 | Denied | Amici (3) | confrontation-clause criminal-evidence criminal-procedure custody-release deposition-testimony due-process good-faith-effort investigative-steps prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-procedure sixth-amendment testimonial-statement unavailability witness-unavailability | The Confrontation Clause permits prosecutors to introduce the out-of-court testimonial statements of an absent witness only if the witness is "unavail… |
| 18-6060 | James Chavez v. Robert LeGrand, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington cross-examination hearsay-exception preliminary-hearing sixth-amendment testimonial-statements witness-unavailability | Whether, pursuant to Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004), a Prosecution can Admit Prior Testimonial Statements, Including a Video-taped Intervi… |
| 18-5407 | Mladen Mitrovic v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law civil-procedure confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay right-to-present-defense standing statutory-interpretation witness-unavailability | WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRONEOUSLY EXCLUDED THE STATEMENTS OF UNAVAILABLE WITNESSES, THEREBY DENYING PETITIONER THE RIGHT TO PRESENT A COMPLETE DE… |