No. 19-5660

Alfonso Sanchez v. Pennsylvania

Lower Court: Pennsylvania
Docketed: 2019-08-21
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: circuit-split criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment jury-verdict mistrial oregon-v-kennedy prosecutorial-misconduct reversal-of-conviction
Key Terms:
FifthAmendment DueProcess CriminalProcedure HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2019-10-18
Question Presented (from Petition)

Does the Double Jeopardy Clause bar retrial when a prosecutor's misconduct, committed for the purposes of diminishing a defendant's chance of acquittal is not discovered until after the jury has rendered a guilty verdict?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does the Double Jeopardy Clause bar retrial when a prosecutor's misconduct, committed for the purposes of diminishing a defendant's chance of acquittal is not discovered until after the jury has rendered a guilty verdict?

Docket Entries

2019-10-21
Petition DENIED.
2019-10-03
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/18/2019.
2019-09-19
Brief of respondent Pennsylvania in opposition filed.
2019-08-19
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 20, 2019)

Attorneys

Alfonso Sanchez
Louis M. Natali Jr. — Petitioner
Pennsylvania
Jill Marie GrazianoBucks County District Attorney's Office, Respondent