No. 20-8220

Patrick Alan Vercruysse v. Bryan Morrison, Warden

Lower Court: Sixth Circuit
Docketed: 2021-06-03
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: 14th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process evidence-insufficiency first-degree-murder fourteenth-amendment police-testimony strangulation sufficiency-of-evidence suffocation
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2021-09-27
Question Presented (from Petition)

SHOULD PETITIONER'S CONVICTION BE VACATED DUE TO INSUFFICIENCY
OF THE EVIDENCE THAT HE CAUSED THE DEATH OF DOCTOR THOMPSON
BY STRANGULATION OR SUFFICATION RESULTING IN FIRST DEGREE
MURDER, VIOLATIVE OF U.S. CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT XIV?

SHOULD PETITIONER'S CONVICTION BE REVERSED WHERE THE EVIDENCE
NEEDED TO PROVE THE INTENT ELEMENTS WERE DERIVED FROM
FABRICATED POLICE TESTIMONY PLACED BEFORE THE JURY WITHOUT
CORRECTION FROM THE PROSECUTION RESULTING IN A CONVICTION
PREDICATED ON PERJURED TESTIMONY VIOLATIVE OF DUE PROCESS AND
A FAIR TRIAL U.S. CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT XIV?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Should petitioner's conviction be vacated due to insufficiency of the evidence that he caused the death of doctor thompson by strangulation or suffocation resulting in first degree murder, violative of u.s. constitution amendment xiv?

Docket Entries

2021-10-04
Petition DENIED.
2021-06-24
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/27/2021.
2021-06-17
Waiver of right of respondent Bryan Morrison, Warden to respond filed.
2021-05-14
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due July 6, 2021)

Attorneys

Bryan Morrison, Warden
Fadwa A. HammoudMichigan Department of Attorney General, Respondent
Patrick Alan Vercruysse
Patrick Alan Vercruysse — Petitioner