No. 21-6065
IFP
Tags: capital-murder due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial fourteenth-amendment post-mortem-photographs prejudice-analysis prejudicial-evidence
Latest Conference:
2022-01-07
Question Presented (from Petition)
In a capital case, does the admission, without an analysis of the risk of prejudice, of over 40 gruesome photographs of the victim's body, depicting post-mortem decomposition and animal predation, violate a defendant's Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process, a fair trial, and a reliable conviction and sentence?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether the admission, without an analysis of the risk of prejudice, of over 40 gruesome photographs of the victim's body, depicting post-mortem decomposition and animal predation, violates a defendant's Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process, a fair trial, and a reliable conviction and sentence
Docket Entries
2022-01-10
Petition DENIED.
2021-12-09
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/7/2022.
2021-11-22
Brief of respondent Alabama in opposition filed.
2021-10-18
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due November 26, 2021)
Attorneys
Michael Belcher
Alicia A. D'Addario — Petitioner
State of Alabama