No. 18-7150

Daniel Hostetler v. Kentucky

Lower Court: Kentucky
Docketed: 2018-12-20
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: brady-violation brady-violation-suppression circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence guilty-plea plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct suppression
Latest Conference: 2019-02-15
Question Presented (from Petition)

(1) Whether material exculpatory evidence is unconstitutionally suppressed when the defense is made aware its existence and its content, but is later incorrectly told that it either no longer existed or had never existed; and

(2) Whether the Constitution requires prosecutors to disclose material exculpatory evidence prior to entering a plea agreement with a criminal defendant.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether material exculpatory evidence is unconstitutionally suppressed when the defense is made aware its existence and its content, but is later incorrectly told that it either no longer existed or had never existed

Docket Entries

2019-02-19
Petition DENIED.
2019-01-17
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/15/2019.
2019-01-07
Waiver of right of respondent Kentucky to respond filed.
2018-12-17
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due January 22, 2019)

Attorneys

Daniel Hostetler
Aaron Reed BakerDepartment of Public Advocacy, Petitioner
Kentucky
Kenneth W. Riggs — Respondent