No. 18-5195

Steven Anthony Alvarez v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2018-07-10
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: 14th-amendment 5th-amendment california-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-law due-process evidence great-bodily-injury jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct testimony vagueness
Latest Conference: 2018-09-24
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED DUE PROCESS OF LAW, WHEN PROSECUTOR MISSTATED LAW, MISSTATED TESTIMONY, AND MISSTATED EVIDENCE TO THE JURY?

2. WHETHER CALIFORNIA LAW OF THE DEFINITION OF "GREAT BODILY INJURY" IS UNCONSTITUTIONALLY VAGUE?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether petitioner was denied due process of law when prosecutor misstated law, misstated testimony, and misstated evidence to the jury

Docket Entries

2018-10-01
Petition DENIED.
2018-07-19
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/24/2018.
2018-07-12
Waiver of right of respondent Spearman, Warden to respond filed.
2018-06-28
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 9, 2018)

Attorneys

Spearman, Warden
Toni Raven Johns-EstavilleOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent
Steven Anthony Alvarez
Steven Anthony Alvarez — Petitioner