No. 20-5369

Don Farmer v. Bernard Booker, Warden

Lower Court: Fourth Circuit
Docketed: 2020-08-17
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: confrontation-clause court-procedure crawford-vs-washington due-process evidence-testimonial ineffective-assistance legal-standards professional-norms sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence verbal-testimony witness-testimony
Latest Conference: 2020-09-29
Question Presented (from Petition)

1.) Whether the evidence supplied through verbal testimony of a witness is considered testimonial (where statements must be functionally identical to live in court testimony).

2.) Whether a complaint under Va. Code § 18.2(d), that the Commonwealth avoided the position that the rapist/Williams was incompetence under prevailing professional norms and deviated from these practices or common custom, an admonished to nation civnoun ys Veprtsen.

3.) Whether no reflected "that there may be no factual finding at certain types of claims, at least for.

4.) Does it reflect "that there may be no factual finding at certain types of claims, at least for.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the evidence supplied through verbal testimony of a witness is considered testimonial

Docket Entries

2020-10-05
Petition DENIED.
2020-08-27
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2020.
2020-08-21
Waiver of right of respondent Bernard Booker to respond filed.
2020-04-14
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 16, 2020)

Attorneys

Bernard Booker
Toby Jay HeytensOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent
Don Farmer
Don Farmer — Petitioner