No. 18-9821
Robert Lee Heard, Jr. v. Louisiana
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
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 Murrill — Office of the Attorney General, Respondent