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Damian Desmond Buck, aka Damien Buck v. Mississippi
IFP petition · Court of Appeals of Mississippi, No. 2024-KA-00025-COA · judgment September 2, 2025
Pending
Question presented
Whether the Sixth Amendment’s Confrontation Clause permits a State to introduce forensic pathology results and an autopsy through a surrogate pathologist who neither performed nor observed the autopsy first-hand, and whose testimony depends on the truth of an absent pathologist’s statements.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Stacy Leah Ferraro
Stacy Ferraro
For respondent
Barbara Wakeland Byrd
Mississippi Attorney General's Office
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences
Proceedings
- Aug 27 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2026.
- Aug 10 2026Brief of respondent Mississippi in opposition filed. (Distributed)
- Jul 14 2026Response Requested. (Due August 13, 2026)
- Jul 02 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2026.
- Jun 26 2026Waiver of right of respondent Mississippi to respond filed.
- May 22 2026Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due July 17, 2026)