No. 19-5239

Kenneth Traylor v. Mississippi

Lower Court: Mississippi
Docketed: 2019-07-18
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: actual-innocence due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief
Latest Conference: 2019-10-01
Question Presented (from Petition)

I. The Petitioner's Substantive Claim Should Be
Heard on the Merits, as the Claim Could Not
Have Been Raised in an Earlier Proceedings.

II. The Petitioner Is in Possession of Newly
Discovered Evidence Tending to Prove His
Actual Innocence, Meaning That Further
Incarceration Would Be a Continued Violation of
the Petitioner's Fifth and Fourteenth
Amendments Right to Due Process of Law.

III. Prior Counsel was Ineffective for Failing to
Adequately Investigate the Alibi Defense.
Likewise, counsel pro se was ineffective on
appeal and in the first post conviction pleading.

IV. The Petitioner Is Entitled to an Evidentiary
Hearing on These Matters.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the petitioner's substantive claim should be heard on the merits as it could not have been raised in earlier proceedings

Docket Entries

2019-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2019-08-15
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
2019-08-09
Waiver of right of respondent Mississippi to respond filed.
2019-07-15
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 19, 2019)

Attorneys

Kenneth Traylor
Cynthia A. StewartCynthia A. Stewart, Attorney, P.A., Petitioner
Mississippi
Abbie Eason KoonceOffice of the Mississippi Attorney General, Respondent