No. 18-616
Response Waived
Tags: criminal-law criminal-procedure de-novo-review direct-appeal Griffith-v-Kentucky plain-error retroactivity standard-of-review substantive-law
Latest Conference:
2019-01-04
Question Presented (from Petition)
Where the Supreme Court has changed the substantive law governing a criminal case that is on direct appeal, must Griffith v. Kentucky be applied to the entire case?
Where the Supreme Court has changed the substantive law governing a criminal case that is on direct appeal, should a de novo or plain error standard of review be applied when determining whether there was error in the proceedings below based on the new law, when the defendant could not have made particular objections in the trial court based on the new law?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Where the Supreme Court has changed the substantive law governing a criminal case that is on direct appeal, must Griffith v. Kentucky be applied to the entire case?
Docket Entries
2019-01-07
Petition DENIED.
2018-11-28
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/4/2019.
2018-11-19
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2018-11-07
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 13, 2018)
Attorneys
Roger Nepal
J. Craig Jett — Petitioner
United States
Noel J. Francisco — Solicitor General, Respondent