No. 19-8130

Raqib Abdul Al-Amin v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al.

Lower Court: South Carolina
Docketed: 2020-03-27
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: actual-innocence constitutional-challenge federal-constitutional-guarantees federal-guarantees habeas-corpus life-without-parole manifest-miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief state-court-conviction
Latest Conference: 2020-04-24
Question Presented (from Petition)

ISSUE ONE:
CERTIORARI SHOULD ISSUE TO CORRECT SOUTH CAROLINA'S
ERRONEOUS DENIAL OF EXTRAODINARY WRIT CHALLENGING THE SOUTH
CAROLINA'S INADEQUATE POST CONVICTION RELIEF; CORRECTIVE PROCESS
THAT HAS DEPRIVED PETITIONER AND PETITIONER SIMILARLY SITUATED OF
THEIR ONE AND ONLY COLLATERAL CHALLENGE TO THEIR STATE COURT
CONVICTION OF VIOLATIONS OF FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEES.

ISSUE THO:
CERTIORARI SHOULD ISSUE TO CORRECT THE MANIFEST MISCARRIAGE
OF JUSTICE OF AN ACTUAL INNOCENT STATE COURT PRISONER WHO STANDS
CONVICTED AND SENTENCED TO LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE FOR A MURDER
SOMEONE ELSE CONFESSED TOO.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Correcting-erroneous-denial-of-extraordinary-writ

Docket Entries

2020-04-27
Petition DENIED.
2020-04-09
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/24/2020.
2020-03-31
Waiver of right of respondents Stirling, et al. to respond filed.
2020-03-19
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 27, 2020)

Attorneys

Raqib A. Al-Amin
Raqib A. Al-Amin — Petitioner
Stirling, et al.
Megan Harrigan JamesonS.C. Attorney General's Office, Respondent