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Rickie Isaiah Gibson, Jr. v. Arizona
IFP petition · Court of Appeals of Arizona, Division Two, No. 2 CA-CR 2025-0012 · judgment January 16, 2026
Pending
Question presented
Whether a trial court violates the Confrontation Clause by restricting crossexamination of the State's principal witness to the sanitized fact that he faced pending felony charges while prohibiting inquiry into the firearm-related nature of those charges, where those facts explained the witness's motive to deny receiving and concealing the firearm at the center of the defendant's self-defense claim.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Kevin Dean Heade
Pinal County Public Defender
For respondent
Joshua C. Smith
Arizona Attorney General's Office
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Aug 27 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2026.
- Aug 18 2026Waiver of right of respondent Arizona to respond filed.
- Jul 31 2026Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 3, 2026)