Review of planted evidence
Raniere v. United States
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Petition denied.
- What it’s about
- Keith Raniere asks the Supreme Court to review his post-conviction challenge, arguing that claims government agents fabricated and planted evidence should not be rejected as late when he says the government concealed it.
- Who it affects
- Raniere will not receive Supreme Court review of his challenge; the order does not decide whether his allegations are true.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.

What it's about
He also argues that courts should not deny relief based on declarations from witnesses he had no chance to question.
Raniere's petition challenged the Second Circuit's handling of claims about alleged planted evidence and witness declarations.
Question presented
1. Whether credible allegations that government agents fabricated and planted evidence in a criminal prosecution — conduct that, in civil proceedings, constitutes “fraud on the court” exempt from any time limitation under Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co., 322 U.S. 238 (1944), and Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(d)(3) — may be denied judicial review based on procedural timeliness requirements when the government actively concealed its own fraudulent scheme. 2. Whether due process and fundamental fairness permits a court to deny post-conviction relief based on untested government declarations from witnesses who never testified in the case, without affording the defendant any opportunity for adversarial testing of their assertions, thereby reducing post-conviction review to a non-adversarial proceeding.
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