No. 19-1054
Christa Gail Pike v. Gloria Gross, Warden
Amici (1)
Experienced Counsel
Tags: cumulative-evidence death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington
Latest Conference:
N/A
Question Presented (from Petition)
1. Whether a defendant who asserts that trial counsel failed to present key evidence is precluded from showing prejudice under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), unless the evidence omitted at trial differs substantially in subject matter from the evidence actually presented.
2. Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit condemning to death a defendant who was eighteen years old at the time of the offense.
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether a defendant who asserts that trial counsel failed to present key evidence is precluded from showing prejudice under Strickland v. Washington
Docket Entries
2020-06-08
Petition DENIED.
2020-05-19
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/4/2020.
2020-05-18
Reply of petitioner Christa Gail Pike filed.
2020-04-02
Motion of petitioner to delay distribution of the petition for a writ of certiorari under Rule 15.5 from April 15, 2020 to May 19, 2020, submitted to The Clerk.
2020-04-02
Motion to delay distribution of the petition for a writ of certiorari until May 19, 2020, granted.
2020-03-26
Brief amici curiae of National Association for Public Defense, et al. filed.
2020-03-26
Brief of respondent Gloria Gross in opposition filed.
2020-02-21
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 26, 2020)
2019-12-17
Application (19A642) granted by Justice Sotomayor extending the time to file until February 24, 2020.
2019-12-06
Application (19A642) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from December 25, 2019 to February 23, 2020, submitted to Justice Sotomayor.
Attorneys
Christa Gail Pike
Elaine Janet Goldenberg — Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Petitioner
Gloria Gross
Richard Davison Douglas — State of Tennessee Attorney General, Respondent
National Association for Public Defense, et al.