No. 19-5791
Marcus Jackson v. Vance Laughlin, Warden, et al.
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: appellate-counsel appellate-review discretionary-relief discretionary-review error-of-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel irrational-strategy legal-sufficiency sixth-amendment state-appeals sufficiency-of-evidence thirteenth-juror thirteenth-juror-review
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus CriminalProcedure JusticiabilityDoctri
DueProcess HabeasCorpus CriminalProcedure JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference:
2019-10-11
Question Presented (from Petition)
Did the Georgia courts err by refusing to remedy appellate counsel's professionally deficient, and prejudicial, waiver of a claim for discretionary relief from Petitioner's conviction and life sentence, where the decision to waive rested on both an error of law and an irrational strategy?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Did the Georgia courts err by refusing to remedy appellate counsel's professionally deficient, and prejudicial, waiver of a claim for discretionary relief from Petitioner's conviction and life sentence, where the decision to waive rested on both an error of law and an irrational strategy?
Docket Entries
2019-10-15
Petition DENIED.
2019-09-26
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/11/2019.
2019-09-18
Waiver of right of respondents Vance Laughlin, Warden, et al. to respond filed.
2019-08-28
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 3, 2019)
2019-07-25
Application (19A98) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until August 28, 2019.
2019-07-19
Application (19A98) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from July 28, 2019 to August 28, 2019, submitted to Justice Thomas.
Attorneys
Marcus Jackson
Stephen Randall Scarborough — Stephen R. Scarborough, Petitioner
Vance Laughlin, Warden, et al.
Andrew Alan Pinson — Office of the Georgia Attorney General, Respondent