Marchello Moore v. United States

Whether the Sixth Circuit erred by prohibiting fact-finders in a criminal trial from considering the in-court appearance of the defendant as it compares to photographic and video evidence in the record, or whether the Sixth Circuit should permit such consideration, as the Fifth and Ninth Circuits do.

Whether the Sixth Circuit failed to follow its own precedential case of United States v. Hickman, 592 F.2d 931 (6th Cir. 1979), when analyzing whether the district court’s interjections during testimony deprived the defendant of a fair trial pursuant the the Sixth Amendment. LIST OF PARTIES All parties appear in the caption of the case on the cover page. A list of all parties to the proceeding in the court whose judgment is the subject of the Petition is as follows: Marchello Moore, Petitioner United States of America, Respondent