No. 19-6535
Clarence Fry v. Ohio
IFP
Tags: constitutional-right criminal-defendant due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment right-to-testify rock-v-arkansas self-representation sixth-amendment trial-counsel
Latest Conference:
2020-01-10
Question Presented (from Petition)
Is it unconstitutional for any Court to deny the Constitutional right to testify in one's own defense by placing the burden of making such desire known to the court on the criminal defendant when he is represented by counsel who knows that the defendant explicitly wants to testify?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Is it unconstitutional for any Court to deny the Constitutional right to testify in one's own defense by placing the burden of making such desire known to the court on the criminal defendant when he is represented by counsel who knows that the defendant explicitly wants to testify?
Docket Entries
2020-01-13
Petition DENIED.
2019-12-20
Reply of petitioner Clarence Fry filed.
2019-12-19
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/10/2020.
2019-12-05
Brief of respondent State of Ohio in opposition filed.
2019-11-04
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 6, 2019)
Attorneys
Clarence Fry
Kimberly Sue Rigby — Office of the Ohio Public Defender, Petitioner
State of Ohio
Jacquenette Susanne Corgan — Summit County Prosecutor's Office, Respondent