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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


Certiorari denied · October 5, 2026

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

Subject area
Criminal Procedure (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Order
Order list, October 5, 2026 · Certiorari denied

Proceedings

  1. Oct 05 2026
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Aug 27 2026
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2026.
  3. Aug 18 2026
    Waiver of right of respondent Arizona to respond filed.
  4. Jul 31 2026
    Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 3, 2026)