Chene DeVonne Manley v. Arizona
Does the Due Process Clause of the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment entitle a convicted prisoner serving a natural life sentence to (1) appointment of counsel on a Notice of Post Conviction Relief asserting a claim of newly discovered material evidence directly bearing on a sentencing judge's determination of whether to impose a sentence of natural life vs. life with a possibility of parole for the offense of First Degree Murder, and/or (2) an opportunity to amend, if necessary, the Notice of Post Conviction Relief ("Notice of PCR"), when the newly discovered evidence involves a congenital neurological condition, Chiari Malformation, with wide-ranging and highly complex effects and the prisoner has no reasonable means of investigating on her own and articulating to the court the full extent of physical, emotional, psychological, and behavioral effects of the newly discovered medical condition?
Does the Due Process Clause entitle a convicted prisoner to appointment of counsel and opportunity to amend a Notice of Post Conviction Relief asserting newly discovered evidence of a congenital neurological condition?