No. 18-687
Auriel Devon Frett v. Territory of the Virgin Islands
Tags: chambers-v-mississippi co-defendant-testimony confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination cumulative-error-doctrine due-process jury-instructions sentencing sixth-amendment
Latest Conference:
2019-02-15
Question Presented (from Petition)
1. Whether the instruction to not consider the specific length of sentence a testifying co-defendant faced absent cooperation violates a defendant's sixth amendment right to cross-examination and to due process?
2. Was the rejection of the cumulative error doctrine in the Virgin Islands contrary to Chambers v. Mississippi, 410 U.S. 284 (1973) and its progeny, and the failure to find error in incomplete jury charges grounds warranting summary reversal?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether the instruction to not consider the specific length of sentence a testifying co-defendant faced absent cooperation violates a defendant's sixth amendment right to cross-examination and to due process?
Docket Entries
2019-02-19
Petition DENIED.
2019-01-09
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/15/2019.
2018-11-19
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 26, 2018)
Attorneys
Auriel Devon Frett
Paul Francis Darakjian — Law Offices of Nancy E. Lucianna, P.C., Petitioner