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Jeffrey Dale Busby v. Mississippi
IFP petition · Supreme Court of Mississippi, No. 2024-KA-00482-SCT · judgment November 13, 2025
Question presented
Whether the Sixth Amendment’s Confrontation Clause allows a State to introduce forensic laboratory testing through a technical reviewer who neither performed nor observed the testing first-hand, and whose testimony depends on the truth of an absent analyst’s statements. (i)
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Tobias Samuel Loss-Eaton
Sidley Austin LLP
For respondent
Barbara Wakeland Byrd
Mississippi Attorney General's Office
Case
Subject area
Criminal Procedure (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences
Amicus briefs
1 cert-stage
Linked docket
25A850
Order
Order list, June 22, 2026 · Summary disposition
Proceedings
- Jul 24 2026Judgment and Mandate Issued.
- Jun 22 2026Motion to proceed in forma pauperis and petition for a writ of certiorari GRANTED. Judgment VACATED and case REMANDED for further consideration in light of the position asserted by Mississippi in its brief filed on May 14, 2026.
- Jun 03 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/18/2026.
- Jun 02 2026Reply of petitioner Jeffrey Dale Busby filed. (Distributed)
- May 14 2026Brief of respondent Mississippi in opposition filed.
- Apr 15 2026Brief amicus curiae of DUI Defense Lawyers Association filed.
- Mar 19 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including May 15, 2026.
- Mar 17 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response from April 15, 2026 to May 15, 2026, submitted to The Clerk.
- Mar 16 2026Response Requested. (Due April 15, 2026)
- Mar 05 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/20/2026.
- Mar 02 2026Waiver of right of respondent Mississippi to respond filed.
- Feb 19 2026Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 26, 2026)
- Jan 30 2026Application (25A850) granted by Justice Alito extending the time to file until February 25, 2026.
- Jan 22 2026Application (25A850) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from February 11, 2026 to February 25, 2026, submitted to Justice Alito.