No. 21-504
Joshua Eric Hawk Clark, aka Joshua Clark v. Mississippi
Response Waived
Tags: due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment judicial-reliability murder-conviction scientific-evidence scientific-reliability second-degree-murder shaken-baby-syndrome
Key Terms:
DueProcess
DueProcess
Latest Conference:
2021-11-05
Question Presented (from Petition)
Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibit a State from convicting a person of murder based almost exclusively on an expert opinion when (a) the State has introduced no scientific evidence that the opinion is reliable; and when (b) there is no finding by the trial judge that the opinion is reliable?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Does the Due Process Clause prohibit a conviction based on unreliable expert testimony?
Docket Entries
2021-11-08
Petition DENIED.
2021-10-20
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/5/2021.
2021-10-18
Waiver of right of respondent Mississippi to respond filed.
2021-10-01
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 4, 2021)
Attorneys
Joshua Eric Hawk Clark
Jim Waide — Waide & Associates, P.A., Petitioner
Mississippi