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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

  1. Aug 27 2026
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2026.
  2. Aug 18 2026
    Waiver of right of respondent Arizona to respond filed.
  3. Jul 31 2026
    Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 3, 2026)