No. 21-6198

Billy Dean Smith v. Lynnie Einerson, Acting Superintendent, Spring Creek Correctional Center

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2021-11-08
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: civil-rights constitutional-protections death-penalty disadvantaged-groups due-process federal-habeas-corpus federal-review prisoner-rights standing state-prisoners state-procedure
Key Terms:
Immigration
Latest Conference: 2022-01-07
Question Presented (from Petition)

When litigating a State Criminal Convictions by way of a Federal Habeas Corpus, the Indigent State Prisoner & Matter What Race, Color or Creed, Who has a State Prison Sentence which is Longer in Years (to serve) than an Actual Human Life Span, is a Party of MCDA Poverty Judging Eve "Disadvantaged Group" (of State Prisoners) a 111 and, (A)3 Who is Entitled Humanely/or Constitutionally; or Not Constitutionally, or Civilly; or Not Civilly, to a Federal Court Appointed Lawyer, Federal Public Defender Being Appointed, Same (As to, But Not Exactly the Same As a Death Sentence, for a Mandated Death Penalty Defense Lawyer, Because that state Prisoner is going to die in a state Prison, As the Sentence is Lower than an Actual Human Life Span?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Can the US Supreme Court find that when litigating a state by way of a federal habeas corpus, the matter of what race, color or creed a state prisoner with a sentence longer than an actual human life span, who is a member of a disadvantaged group, is entitled to a federally appointed lawyer or not civilly

Docket Entries

2022-01-10
Petition DENIED.
2021-12-09
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/7/2022.
2021-12-01
Waiver of right of respondent Marianna Miranda to respond filed.
2021-08-30
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 8, 2021)

Attorneys

Billy Dean Smith
Billy Dean Smith — Petitioner
Marianna Miranda
Eric Alan RingsmuthState of Alaska, Department of Law, Office of Criminal Appeals, Respondent