No. 20-7342

In Re Christopher Vigliotti

Lower Court: N/A
Docketed: 2021-03-05
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: 14th-amendment 8th-amendment covid-19 covid-19-risk cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus prison-conditions
Latest Conference: 2021-03-26
Question Presented (from Petition)

SHOULD THE COURT ISSUE AN EMERGENCY WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS REQUIRING RESPONDENT'S TO RELEASE PETITIONER DUE TO THE FACT COVID-19 AND ITS VARIANTS PRESENT AN IMMINENT DANGER TO PETITIONER'S LIFE FROM WHICH PETITIONER, WHOM IS INCARCERATED, CANNOT PROTECT HIMSELF BECAUSE RESPONDENT'S CANNOT 100% PROTECT PETITIONER FROM CONTRACTING THE DEADLY VIRUS UNDER ANY LIVING CONDITIONS THAT CAN BE PROVIDED BY RESPONDENT'S THEREBY ILLEGALLY COMMUTATING HIS PRESENT 4.2 YEAR SENTENCE INTO A DEATH SENTENCE?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Should the court issue an emergency writ of habeas corpus requiring respondent's to release petitioner due to the fact COVID-19 and its variants present an imminent danger to petitioner's life from which petitioner, whom is incarcerated, cannot protect himself because respondent's cannot 100% protect petitioner from contracting the deadly virus under any living conditions that can be provided by respondent's thereby illegally commutating his present 4.2 year sentence into a death sentence?

Docket Entries

2021-03-29
Petition DENIED.
2021-03-11
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/26/2021.
2021-01-25
Petition for writ of habeas corpus and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed.

Attorneys

Christopher Vigliotti
Christopher Vigliotti — Petitioner