No. 18-8424

Keith Jenkins v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-03-13
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process excessive-punishment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel multiple-offender sentencing sentencing-guidelines
Latest Conference: 2019-04-12
Question Presented (from Petition)

Is The Trial Court In Error By Denying The Motion To Quash Based On Errors In The Multiple Offender Charng, Pleading And Proof? Did The Multiple Bill Proceeding Deny Keith Jenkins Due Process Of Law?

Does It Violate The Eight Amendment Prohibition Against Cruel And Unusual Punishment Or The Louisiana's Constitution's Prohibition Against Excessive Punishment. To Sentence An Addicted Defendant To The Maximum Sentence Of life Imprisonment Without Benefit. Of Probation Or Parole, For Crime Association With The Addition? Would A Sentence Of Twenty To Thirty Was MoreAppropriate To The OffenseAnd Offender?

Did Jenkins' Trial Counsel Rendered Ineffective Assistance in Violation Of The Fifth, Sixth And Fourteenth Amendments To The United States Constitution And Artide I, 13 And 1601 The Louisiana Constitution Of 1974?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Is the trial court in error by denying the motion to quash based on errors in the multiple offender charging, pleading and proof?

Docket Entries

2019-04-15
Petition DENIED.
2019-03-28
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/12/2019.
2019-03-25
Waiver of right of respondent Darrel Vannoy to respond filed.
2019-02-19
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 12, 2019)

Attorneys

Darrel Vannoy
Christopher James PonoroffOrleans Parish District Attorney's Office, Respondent
Keith Jenkins
Keith Jenkins — Petitioner