No. 18-8154

Deondre D. Romero v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-02-27
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: and whether ineffective assistance of counsel dep due-process fair-trial false-testimony fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment victim-credibility witness-credibility
Latest Conference: 2019-04-26
Question Presented (from Petition)

Whether Petitioner's Foujteenth Amendment. right to a. fair and impartial trial was violated 'then the proseatftr elicited false testimony from the victim and allowed the victim to give false answers to ()teshons posed to her by defense counsel?

Whether Petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to effective assistance of counsel and to present evidence in his defense were violated when hizr. SithclthmOne Thai counsel failed to reqiS a mistrialafter the prosecutor misled defense counsel and the court during opening statement that the vidim's shter would tQth1 h and recited her pur ported testimony, but never produced her as an actual wtes. Suhetaim TWo That counsel failed to properly utilize the victims prior inconsistent stzdeni€tttsto impeach her credibility. Subciaim Three: Thai counsel failed to obtain exculpatory documents from the Office of Community Services ((CS) regarding an thve$igalion ía complaint of physical abuse which led tiCS officials to conduct routine visits with the victim and her siblings at their home mid school bt4.en March andApnl of2009. Subciaiin Four That counsel failed to call witnesses to testify at trial who were present during the times of the alleged offenses and who would have testified that petitioner could not have lured the victim in a mom and r ape her six times without their knowledge. tkirfljyc: That counsel refused to permit petitioner to testify , in his own defense, after counsel failed to call any of his witnesses, and he insisted to counsel that he wanted to provide a itonal explanation for the Use accusation made against him by the victim -

Did the Slide present sgflicient evidence to support. the finding of guilt in this case?

4).1's the Petitioner deprived of his Fourteenth Amendment. right to a fair trial based on the accumulation of errors committed (living his trial?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment right to a fair and impartial trial was violated

Docket Entries

2019-04-29
Petition DENIED.
2019-04-11
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/26/2019.
2019-02-22
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 29, 2019)

Attorneys

Deondre D. Romero
Deondre D. Romero — Petitioner