No. 19-7254

John Garrett Smith v. Washington

Lower Court: Washington
Docketed: 2020-01-13
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment jury-trial martial-law military-justice sixth-amendment
Latest Conference: 2020-03-20
Question Presented (from Petition)

(1) Is it lawfully permissible for a State to knowingly breach three core Amendment V of the U.S. Constitution (ratified 12.15.1791) provisions by indicting and pre-convicting a U.S. Citizen under a Grand Jury in the absence of a charging document pertaining to the indictment (along with the absence of a charge for which that Citizen remains imprisoned in ultra-vires action), (b) admitted Double Jeopardy reference (proceedings in lower court herein), and (c) deprivation of Property and Liberty "without due Process of Law," as manifest in the State's initial Theft of Citizen's Identity and State's Theft of Citizen's Property (personal or private and Intellectual), and State's Theft of Citizen's Liberty, followed by the absence in the Complete charging instrument of any judicially-ratified charge redundantly required under Due Process of Law?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the absence of a grand jury indictment violates due process and the right to a jury trial under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments

Docket Entries

2020-03-23
The motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis is denied, and the petition for a writ of certiorari is dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
2020-02-27
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/20/2020.
2019-12-23
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due February 12, 2020)

Attorneys

John Garrett Smith
John Garrett Smith — Petitioner