No. 18-5278
Christopher Collings v. Missouri
IFP
Tags: capital-punishment culpability deliberation due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-reliability intoxication jury-instructions mens-rea mental-state
Key Terms:
DueProcess Punishment
DueProcess Punishment
Latest Conference:
2018-09-24
Question Presented (from Petition)
Whether it violates th e Eighth Amendment to instruct a capital jury that they may not consider evidence of the defendant's intoxication at the time of the crime in evaluating whether he deliberated , when such mental state element is a "circumstance of the particular offense," Woodson v. North Carolina , 428 U.S. 280, 304 (1976), and a "critical facet of the individualized determ ination of culpability required in capital cases," Tison v. Arizona , 481 U.S. 137, 156 (1987)?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether it violates the Eighth Amendment to instruct a capital jury that they may not consider evidence of the defendant's intoxication at the time of the crime in evaluating whether he deliberated
Docket Entries
2018-10-01
Petition DENIED.
2018-09-06
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/24/2018.
2018-09-04
Reply of petitioner Christopher Collings filed. Distributed
2018-08-20
Brief of respondent Missouri in opposition filed.
2018-07-16
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 20, 2018)
Attorneys
Christopher Collings
Amy Marie Bartholow — Missouri State Public Defender System, Petitioner
Missouri
Shaun J. Mackelprang — Respondent