No. 21-189

Patrick Okey v. Pennsylvania

Lower Court: Pennsylvania
Docketed: 2021-08-10
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: and Fourteenth Amendments and whether the Commonw Eighth constitutional-challenge due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment laches laches-doctrine sixth-amendment speedy-trial
Key Terms:
Securities
Latest Conference: 2021-09-27
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Whether Speedy trial Rule( 600) is protected by due
of law of the Sixth Amendment; Eighth Amendment
Fourtheeth Amendment:-section 1, of the United States
permit Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to rely onprocess
and
Constitution
the laches doctrine to bar all forms of equitable relief for
substantive constitutional challenges for violation of Natural
justice.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Speedy Trial Rule (600) is protected by the Due Process Clause of the Sixth Amendment, Eighth Amendment, and Fourteenth Amendment, and whether the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania can rely on the laches doctrine to bar all forms of equitable relief for substantive constitutional challenges for violation of natural justice

Docket Entries

2021-10-04
Petition DENIED.
2021-09-01
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/27/2021.
2021-08-26
Waiver of right of respondent Pennsylvania to respond filed.
2021-07-23
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 9, 2021)

Attorneys

Patrick Okey
Patrick Okey — Petitioner
Pennsylvania
James Edward ZamkotowiczYork County District Attorney's Office, Respondent