No. 20-1401
Response Waived
Tags: confrontation-clause constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process false-evidence fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment prosecutor prosecutorial-misconduct
Latest Conference:
2021-05-20
Question Presented (from Petition)
A. Does any Court have the authority to extinguish a defendant's due process rights via the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment by allowing the prosecutor to proffer false evidence?
B. Does a Virginia Court have the authority to violate the Confrontation Clause of the Constitution by allowing any hearsay testimony?
C. Can a Virginia Court subject a defendant to cruel and unusual punishment based on an erroneous proffer by the prosecution?
D. Does a Virginia Court have the authority to extinguish a defendant's post commitment First Amendment Rights?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Does any Court have the authority to extinguish a defendant's due process rights via the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment by allowing the prosecutor to proffer false evidence?
Docket Entries
2021-05-24
Petition DENIED.
2021-05-04
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/20/2021.
2021-04-28
Waiver of right of respondent Virginia to respond filed.
2021-04-02
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due May 6, 2021)
Attorneys
James Gardner Dennis
James Gardner Dennis — Petitioner
Virginia
Toby Jay Heytens — Office of the Attorney General, Respondent