No. 20-7199

Maurice Duncan Burks v. United States

Lower Court: Sixth Circuit
Docketed: 2021-02-22
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: appellate-review due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure motion-for-new-trial new-trial standard-of-review trial-court-discretion witness-credibility
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2021-03-19
Question Presented (from Petition)

Whether Using a Different, More Stringent, Standard of Review When a Trial Court Grants a Motion for New Trial than Utilized When a Trial Court Denies a Motion for New Trial Violates Due Process?

II. Whether an Appellate Court is Free to Substitute its own Witness Credibility Determinations for that of the Trial Court Without Regard to the Trial Court Having Seen and Listened to the Witnesses Testimony?

III. Whether a United States Court of Appeals May Effectively Abolish Rule 33 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure by Enacting a Different, More Stringent, Level of Review When a Trial Court Grants a Motion for New Trial that is Functionally Impossible to Meet?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether Using a Different, More Stringent, Standard of Review When a Trial Court Grants a Motion for New Trial than Utilized When a Trial Court Denies a Motion for New Trial Violates Due Process?

Docket Entries

2021-03-22
Petition DENIED.
2021-03-04
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/19/2021.
2021-02-26
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2021-02-12
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 24, 2021)

Attorneys

Maurice Burks
John Mitchell Bailey IVAttorney at Law, Petitioner
United States
Elizabeth B. PrelogarActing Solicitor General, Respondent