No. 21-7271

Matthew Moore v. Thomas Mackie, Warden

Lower Court: Sixth Circuit
Docketed: 2022-03-03
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-sexual-conduct due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment
Latest Conference: 2022-04-01
Question Presented (from Petition)

WAS DEFENDANT-PETITIONER DENIED EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL AND UNCONSTITUTIONALLY COERCED INTO TAKING A PATERNITY BLOOD TEST IN JUVENILE COURT THAT RESULTED IN HIS CONVICTION OF CRIMINAL SEXUAL CONDUCT IN THE FIRST DEGREE IN THE WAYNE COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT AND A SENTENCE OF IMPRISONMENT OF TWENTY TO FORTY YEARS, IN VIOLATION OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION?

WAS DEFENDANT-PETITIONER DENIED HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL DURING THE PLEA PROCEEDINGS IN THE WAYNE COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT AND ON APPEAL IN THE MICHIGAN COURT OF APPEALS?

DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT UNLAWFULLY DEPRIVE DEFENDANT-PETITIONER APPELLATE REVIEW OF THE DISTRICT COURT'S DENIAL OF HIS PETITION FOR A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS, FILED IN ACCORDANCE WITH 28 U.S.C. § 2254, BY ERRONEOUSLY DENYING HIS MOTION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Was denied effective assistance of counsel and unconstitutionally coerced into taking a paternity blood test

Docket Entries

2022-04-04
Petition DENIED.
2022-03-17
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/1/2022.
2022-03-15
Waiver of right of respondent Thomas Mackie, Warden to respond filed.
2022-02-28
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 4, 2022)

Attorneys

Matthew Moore
Richard D. KornAttorney at Law, Petitioner
Thomas Mackie, Warden
Fadwa A. HammoudMichigan Department of Attorney General, Respondent