No. 20-7094
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus illiterate indigent-status legal-representation prisoner-assistance prisoner-rights pro-se
Latest Conference:
2021-03-19
Question Presented (from Petition)
I. Did the lower court violate the protections under the Iowa and United States Constitutions by denying Petitioner, an illiterate prisoner, both legal assistance and assistance from another prisoner?
II. Should the US District Court of Iowa have investigated Petitioners claims of a fraudulent filing of his 2254 by another prisoner without the actual filers knowledge rather than the court making Petitioner who is pro se, illiterate and Indigent investigate this matter when the court lost his case file?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Did the lower court violate the protections under the Iowa and United States Constitutions by denying Petitioner, an illiterate prisoner, both legal assistance and assistance from another prisoner?
Docket Entries
2021-03-22
Petition DENIED.
2021-03-04
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/19/2021.
2021-03-01
Waiver of right of respondent Iowa to respond filed.
2020-09-19
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 12, 2021)
Attorneys
Iowa
Kevin Cmelik — Iowa Department of Justice, Respondent
Kenneth Ray Sheffey
Kenneth Ray Sheffey — Petitioner