No. 19-8643

Wallace Eugene Evatt, Jr. v. Michael Stephan, Warden

Lower Court: Fourth Circuit
Docketed: 2020-06-09
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony
Latest Conference: 2020-09-29
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Why was the Judge, Jury, and myself not told of Karen Rojas svicidal tendencies and many failed suicide attempts?

2. Is it not a Brady violation to exclude exculpatory evidence that Karen Rojas had tried unsucessfully to Kill herself many times?

3. Is a trial legal when defence attorney Dorothy Maniqault disobeyed judge Robin Stilwell's order to retest my shirt after defence came up with two different analysisi of residue and blood: after judge awarded 75,c00.00 for test?

4. Is it legal for trial attorney and prosection to conspire together to hide this evidence?

5. should I be lawifully able to have all evridence for and against me Known to me before frial?

6. should not the jodge and jory breard this evidence for frial?

7. Should I be punished for frial attorney innefectal, fawed, and purposly botched defence and PeR atturney's?

8. Shorld not have Karen Rojas' husband of SC years of suicide history been called to testify? Why wasn't he?

9. How could I help in my defence when I was chenied exculpatory evriclence?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the judge and prosecutor failed to disclose evidence related to the victim's suicidal tendencies and prior suicide attempts, in violation of Brady v. Maryland

Docket Entries

2020-10-05
Petition DENIED.
2020-07-09
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2020.
2020-07-06
Waiver of right of respondent Michael Stephan to respond filed.
2019-08-13
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due July 9, 2020)

Attorneys

Michael Stephan
Melody Jane BrownSouth Carolina Attorney General's Office, Respondent
Wallace Eugene Evatt
Wallace Eugene Evatt Jr. — Petitioner