No. 18-8106
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: civil-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification false-testimony fourteenth-amendment wrongful-conviction
Latest Conference:
2019-03-22
Question Presented (from Petition)
Whether a conviction obtained through the use of false evidence by a material state witness - the only state witness to reliably identify the defendant at trial - must be vacated under the Fourteenth Amendment?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether a conviction obtained through the use of false witness testimony that is unreliable to identify the defendant at trial must be vacated under the Fourteenth Amendment?
Docket Entries
2019-03-25
Petition DENIED.
2019-03-07
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/22/2019.
2019-02-28
Waiver of right of respondent State of Delaware to respond filed.
2019-02-09
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 25, 2019)
2019-01-16
Application (18A732) granted by Justice Alito extending the time to file until February 15, 2019.
2018-12-05
Application (18A732) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from December 17, 2018 to February 15, 2019, submitted to Justice Alito.
Attorneys
Benjamin Crump
Benjamin Crump — Petitioner
State of Delaware