No. 18A1223

Keith Jerome Wright v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-05-28
Status: Denied
Type: A
Tags: dna-evidence due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (from Petition)

Whether the Court of Appeal erred in failing to provide petitioner due process by failing to consider either explicitly or implicitly his rights in failing to grant an Evidentiary Hearing, whether counsel was ineffective assistance in properly investigating the Petitioner's unlawful arrest and seizure of D.N.A, and prosecutors misconduct, which is a Due Process violation of Petitioner Constitutional Rights.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments require suppression of DNA evidence obtained through an allegedly unlawful arrest and seizure due to ineffective assistance of counsel and prosecutorial misconduct

Docket Entries

2019-05-29
Application (18A1223) denied by Justice Kagan.
2019-05-17
Application (18A1223) for a certificate of appealability, submitted to Justice Kagan.

Attorneys

Wright, Keith J.
Keith Jerome Wright — Petitioner