No. 20-5208

William Monterial Jones v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2020-07-29
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence identity identity-evidence procedural-default state-prosecution
Latest Conference: 2020-09-29
Question Presented (from Petition)

PORSUANT TO THE PRECEDENT ESTARLISHED EN UNITED STATES V BONNER, 6H8 F.2d 2O9 (4MCIR 2O11), DID THE STATE SUFFICIENTLY PROVE IT'S BURDEN OF PROOF OF GUILT TO SUSTAIN PETITIONERS CONVICTION WHEN NO"CONTEMPORANEOUS IDENTITY" EVIDENCE MN P A RELIES

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the State sufficiently proved Petitioner's guilt when no contemporaneous identity evidence existed to link Petitioner as the perpetrator?

Docket Entries

2020-10-05
Petition DENIED.
2020-09-10
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2020.
2020-07-29
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 28, 2020)

Attorneys

William Jones
William Monterial Jones — Petitioner