No. 19-8522
Richard Felton v. Massachusetts
IFP
Tags: common-law due-process fourteenth-amendment procedural-waiver retroactive-application rogers-v-tennessee structural-error
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus
DueProcess HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference:
2020-09-29
Question Presented (from Petition)
Did the Massachusetts Appeals Court deny a defendant due process of law in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, when it retroactively applied two decisions that abolished the state's previously "expressed" and widely relied upon "common law" rule prohibiting application of the procedural waiver doctrine when addressing a specific type of structural error, Rogers v. Tennessee, 532 U.S. 451, 461-462 (2001)?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Did the Massachusetts Appeals Court deny a defendant due process of law in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment
Docket Entries
2020-10-05
Petition DENIED.
2020-07-02
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2020.
2020-04-29
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due June 22, 2020)
Attorneys
Richard Felton
Richard Felton — Petitioner