No. 21-6996

Robert Stivers v. Illinois

Lower Court: Illinois
Docketed: 2022-01-28
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights coerced-confession confession-admissibility constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process interrogation-procedure police-interrogation right-to-silence
Latest Conference: 2022-03-04
Question Presented (from Petition)

Is a suspect's Constitutional Amendments V as well as XIV rights violated when a clear and unambiguous invocation to remain silent is ignored? Additionally, would evidentiary specific benefits related to the case, and to what extent police may use promises and lies to extract a confession from a suspect before rendering it involuntary, unreliable, and violating their Constitutional Amendments V as well as XV rights?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the police violated a suspect's constitutional rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments when they ignored clear and unambiguous invocations of the right to remain silent and used promises of leniency to extract a confession that was involuntary, unreliable, and violated the suspect's constitutional rights

Docket Entries

2022-03-07
Petition DENIED.
2022-02-17
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/4/2022.
2022-02-16
Waiver of right of respondent Illinois to respond filed.
2022-01-09
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due February 28, 2022)

Attorneys

Illinois
Katherine Marie DoerschOffice of the Illinois Attorney General, Respondent
Robert Stivers
Robert Stivers — Petitioner