Vinaykumar Patel v. United States

Whether the introduction of speculative lay opinion by a law enforcement officer, asserting a staged robbery without personal knowledge or expertise, violates the petitioner’s rights under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments, and contravenes evidentiary limi­ tations under Federal Rule of Evidence 701 and this Court’s rulings in United States v. Anderskow and Daubert v. Merrell Dow.

Whether the government’s use of testimonial hearsay in the form of narrative recitations by law enforcement agents—despite judicial rulings excluding the co-defendant’s statements—violates the Confron­ tation Clause of the Sixth Amendment as articulated in Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004).

Whether a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 1035 (a)(2) for a false healthcare-related statement can stand absent evidence of material falsity, where treatment was in fact rendered, and no witness refuted the legitimacy of the petitioner’s medical need.