No. 20-5627

Justin Woodard v. New York

Lower Court: New York
Docketed: 2020-09-09
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation
Latest Conference: 2020-11-06
Question Presented (from Petition)

1) Was defendant's Constitutional Fourteenth Amendment right to Due process violated when the Monroe County Trial Court denied the re-opening of a suppression hearing (Huntly) when defendant's reasons for re-opening were within statutory guidelines, meritorious, and likely to be successful in the suppression of his statements to police involving his Invocation of his right to counsel?

2) Was defendant's Constitutional Fifth & Fourteenth Amendment rights violated when the prosecution used, in their case in chief, defendant's Grand Jury testimony in contravention of the express terms of a cooperation agreement thereby breaching the agreement and violated defendant's rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution?

3) Was defendant's Constitutional Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel violated when defense counsel failed to Investigate ALL the facts of this case and thereafter, failed to Invoke the express terms of the Cooperation Agreement, which precluded the admission of defendant's Grand jury testimony at Trial?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant statutory and constitutional provisions

Docket Entries

2020-11-09
Petition DENIED.
2020-10-22
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/6/2020.
2020-08-18
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 9, 2020)

Attorneys

Justin Woodard
Justin Woodard — Petitioner