No. 18-9821

Robert Lee Heard, Jr. v. Louisiana

Lower Court: Louisiana
Docketed: 2019-06-27
Status: GVR
Type: IFP
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP
Tags: Apodaca-v-Oregon criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial nonunanimous-jury-verdict nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2020-04-24 (distributed 3 times)
Question Presented (from Petition)

Does the right to a jury trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, as applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, allow a state-court criminal conviction to stand on a nonunanimous jury verdict?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does the right to a jury trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment allow a state-court criminal conviction to stand on a nonunanimous jury verdict?

Docket Entries

2020-05-29
MANDATE ISSUED.
2020-05-29
JUDGMENT ISSUED.
2020-04-27
Motion to proceed in forma pauperis and petition for a writ of certiorari GRANTED. Judgment VACATED and case REMANDED for further consideration in light of <i>Ramos</i> v. <i>Louisiana</i>, 590 U. S. ___ (2020). Justice Alito, concurring in the decision to grant, vacate, and remand: In this and in all other cases in which the Court grants, vacates, and remands in light of <i>Ramos</i> v. <i>Louisiana</i>, I concur in the judgment on the understanding that the Court is not deciding or expressing a view on whether the question was properly raised below but is instead leaving that question to be decided on remand.
2020-04-20
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/24/2020.
2019-11-27
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/13/2019.
2019-11-08
Brief of respondent State of Louisiana in opposition filed.
2019-08-23
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including November 12, 2019.
2019-08-15
Motion to extend the time to file a response from September 13, 2019 to November 12, 2019, submitted to The Clerk.
2019-08-14
Response Requested. (Due September 13, 2019)
2019-08-01
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
2019-07-26
Waiver of right of respondent State of Louisiana to respond filed.
2019-06-22
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due July 29, 2019)

Attorneys

Robert Heard
Christopher Albert Aberle Jr.Louisiana Appellate Project, Petitioner
State of Louisiana
Elizabeth Baker MurrillOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent