No. 19-5118

Jason Paul Mathison v. Washington

Lower Court: Washington
Docketed: 2019-07-09
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: collateral-attack constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process involuntary-plea judicial-procedure plea-agreement plea-bargaining probation sentencing sentencing-conditions time-limits treatment-program vagueness
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2019-10-01
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Are constitutional rights of due process violated when a court
imposes a condition that requires a defendant to "successfully
complete" a treatment program without defining what constitutes
completion, or when that completion will be considered attained,
and then punishes the defendant for failing to meet the requirement?

2. Are constitutional rights of due process violated when state law
requires that a defendant be informed of the time limit for
collateral attack at sentencing but, instead, the defendant is not
actually informed of that time limit until after it has passed and
his subsequent collateral attack is then dismissed as untimely?

3. Are constitutional rights of due process violated when a motion to
withdraw a negotiated plea agreement that is involuntary, due to
misinformation or ambiguity regarding direct consequences of the
plea, is denied as untimely when the misinformation was not
discovered until after the time limit for collateral attack has
passed?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Are constitutional rights of due process violated when a court imposes a condition that requires a defendant to 'successfully complete' a treatment program without defining what constitutes completion, or when that completion will be considered attained, and then punishes the defendant for failing to meet the requirement?

Docket Entries

2019-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2019-08-22
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
2019-06-07
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 8, 2019)

Attorneys

Jason Paul Mathison
Jason Paul Mathison — Petitioner