No. 19-5062
IFP
Tags: capital-punishment confrontation-clause due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment Hearsay sixth-amendment witness-testimony
Latest Conference:
2019-10-01
Question Presented (from Petition)
In this capital case, the Tennessee courts permitted the State to introduce a transcript of prior testimony of its "primary witness" rather than presenting the living witness at trial. Did depriving the Petitioner of his ability to confront and cross-examination the key evidence at his capital trial violate the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Did depriving the Petitioner of his ability to confront and cross-examination the key evidence at his capital trial violate the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments?
Docket Entries
2019-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2019-08-15
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
2019-08-01
Brief of respondent State of Tennessee in opposition filed.
2019-07-01
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 2, 2019)
2019-04-22
Application (18A1081) granted by Justice Sotomayor extending the time to file until July 1, 2019.
2019-04-18
Application (18A1081) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from April 30, 2019 to June 29, 2019, submitted to Justice Sotomayor.
Attorneys
Henry Lee Jones
State of Tennessee
Leslie E. Price — Tennessee Attorney General's Office, Respondent