No. 18-7658

Julius Darius Jones v. Oklahoma

Lower Court: Oklahoma
Docketed: 2019-01-30
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: capital-punishment constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment juror-bias post-conviction post-conviction-review racial-prejudice sixth-amendment
Latest Conference: 2019-03-29
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Whether newly-discovered evidence establishes that racial prejudice influenced the decision of at least one juror to convict Mr. Jones and sentence him to death in violation of his rights under the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution?

2. Whether Oklahoma's capital post-conviction statute, specifically Okla. Stat. Ann. tit. 22, § 1089(D)(8)(b), and the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals' application of the statute in Mr. Jones' case, denies Mr. Jones an adequate corrective process for the hearing and determination of his newly-available federal constitutional claim in violation of his rights under the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether newly-discovered evidence establishes that racial prejudice influenced the decision of at least one juror to convict Mr. Jones and sentence him to death in violation of his rights under the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution?

Docket Entries

2019-04-01
Petition DENIED.
2019-03-14
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/29/2019.
2019-03-14
Reply of petitioner Julius Darius Jones filed. (Distributed)
2019-02-28
Brief of respondent State of Oklahoma in opposition filed.
2019-01-25
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 1, 2019)
2018-12-18
Application (18A641) granted by Justice Sotomayor extending the time to file until January 28, 2019.
2018-12-14
Application (18A641) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from December 27, 2018 to January 26, 2019, submitted to Justice Sotomayor.

Attorneys

Julius Darius Jones
Amanda Christine BassOffice of the Federal Public Defender, District of Arizona, Capital Habeas Unit, Petitioner
State of Oklahoma
Jennifer L. CrabbOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent