No. 19-5031

Efrain Ismael Conde v. Arizona

Lower Court: Arizona
Docketed: 2019-07-01
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: 14th-amendment access-to-court appointment-of-counsel credibility-of-witness due-process due-process-materiality-standard fourteenth-amendment materiality-standard newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief witness-credibility
Latest Conference: 2019-10-01
Question Presented (from Petition)

(1) Does the Due Process Clause of the Federal Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment entitle a convicted prisoner serving a 25-to-life sentence with additional consecutive sentences to (A) appointment of counsel on a Notice of Post Conviction Relief asserting a claim of newly discovered material evidence directly bearing on the credibility of a crucial state's witness who has been found to have lied under oath in multiple homicide cases, and/or (B) an opportunity to amend, if necessary, the Notice of Post Conviction Relief ("Notice of PCR"), when the prisoner has no reasonable means of further investigating on his own?

(2) Does the Due Process Clause of the Federal Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment prohibit a state from ignoring this Court's materiality standard and applying a preponderance of the evidence standard rather than the federal constitutional standard of a "reasonable probability which is less than a preponderance of the evidence? This Court held that a reasonable probability is "a probability sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome" and is less than a preponderance of the evidence. Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 693-94 (1984); Kyles v. Whitley, 514 U.S. 419, 434 (1995).

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does the Due Process Clause entitle a convicted prisoner to appointment of counsel and opportunity to amend a notice of post-conviction relief asserting newly discovered evidence of witness credibility?

Docket Entries

2019-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2019-08-15
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
2018-10-29
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due July 31, 2019)

Attorneys

Efrain Ismael Conde
Efrain Ismael Conde — Petitioner