No. 20-8255

Kenneth Darnell Williams v. United States

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: 2021-06-08
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: actual-innocence constitutional-claims fundamental-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel more-usual-remedy procedural-bar writ-of-error-coram-nobis
Latest Conference: 2021-09-27
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Whether a claim of actual innocence is cognizable on a writ of error coram nobis where new evidence of defendant's innocence is discovered after sentence is served, and whether a credible actual innocence claim on a writ of error coram nobis may allow a defendant to pursue his underlying constitutional claims on the merits notwithstanding the existence of a procedural bar to relief?

2. Whether a petition for a writ of error coram nobis is ineligible if the claim could have been raised on a § 2255 motion, as five circuits hold, or a petition for a writ of error coram nobis is eligible as long as a more usual remedy is not available, as seven circuits hold, and whether ineffective assistance of counsel claims are a fundamental error that is cognizable on writ of error coram nobis?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a claim of actual innocence is cognizable on a writ of error coram nobis

Docket Entries

2021-10-04
Petition DENIED.
2021-06-17
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/27/2021.
2021-06-11
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2021-04-23
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due July 8, 2021)

Attorneys

Kenneth Darnell Williams
Kenneth Darnell Williams — Petitioner
United States
Brian H. FletcherActing Solicitor General, Respondent