No. 19-7168

Tracy Eugene Johnson v. Illinois

Lower Court: Illinois
Docketed: 2020-01-03
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: burglary constitutional-rights Direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel Failure-to-prove-essential-elements-of-offense fourteenth-amendment Fourteenth-Amendment-due-process Post-trial-motion reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Sixth-Amendment-right-to-effective-assistance-of-c
Key Terms:
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Latest Conference: 2020-02-28
Question Presented (from Petition)

1.) WHEATHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO THE EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF APPELLATE COUSEL FAILURE TO RAISE THE VALID AND MERIT ORIOUS CLAIM THAT THE PETITIONER WAS CONVICTED OF THE CRIME WHEN THERE WAS A REASONABLE DOUBT OF HIS GUILT.

2.) WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED HIS FOURTEENTH AND SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS TO THE DUE PROCESS OF LAW, AND THE EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COULSEL WHEN THE STATE CONVICTED HIM OF THE OFFENSE OF BURGLARY WHILE FAILING TO PROVE THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF THE OFFENSE, AND COUNSELS FAILURE TO POINT OUT THIS CLAIMS MERITS IN A POST_TRIAL MOTION, AND ON HIS DIRECT APPEAL.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether petitioner was denied his Sixth Amendment constitutional right to the effective assistance of appellate counsel

Docket Entries

2020-03-02
Petition DENIED.
2020-02-13
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/28/2020.
2019-12-24
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due February 3, 2020)

Attorneys

Tracy Johnson
Tracy Eugene Johnson — Petitioner