No. 21-6435

James Worley v. Ohio

Lower Court: Ohio
Docketed: 2021-11-29
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: capital-conviction capital-punishment constitutional-rights fair-jury fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire
Latest Conference: 2022-01-07
Question Presented (from Petition)

Is a capital conviction and sentence in valid and imposed in violation of the capital defendant's constitutional rights to a fair jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, when po tential jurors are exposed to a highly derogatory history of the defendant, and then to a ve ry positive history of the prosecuting attorney and his witnesses during voir dire?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Is a capital conviction and sentence invalid and imposed in violation of the capital defendant's constitutional rights to a fair jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, when potential jurors are exposed to a highly derogatory history of the defendant, and then to a very positive history of the prosecuting attorney and his witnesses during voir dire?

Docket Entries

2022-01-10
Petition DENIED.
2021-12-23
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/7/2022.
2021-12-08
Brief of respondent Ohio in opposition filed.
2021-11-22
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 29, 2021)

Attorneys

James Worley
Andrew Paul AvellanoAndrew P. Avellano, Petitioner
State of Ohio
Scott Allen HaselmanProsecuting Attorney of Fulton County, Ohio, Respondent