No. 21-793
Pennsylvania v. William Henry Cosby, Jr.
Tags: 14th-amendment criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment immunity immunity-promise press-release prosecutorial-discretion
Latest Conference:
2022-03-04
Question Presented (from Petition)
When a prosecutor publicly announces that he will not file criminal charges based on lack of evidence, does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment transform that announcement into a binding promise that no charges will ever be filed, a promise that the target may rely on as if it were a grant of immunity?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether a public press release grants a defendant transactional immunity
Docket Entries
2022-03-07
Petition DENIED.
2022-02-16
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/4/2022.
2022-02-10
Reply of petitioner Pennsylvania filed.
2022-01-31
Brief of respondent William Henry Cosby, Jr. in opposition filed.
2021-12-17
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including January 31, 2022.
2021-12-15
Motion to extend the time to file a response from December 30, 2021 to January 31, 2022, submitted to The Clerk.
2021-11-24
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 30, 2021)
Attorneys
Pennsylvania
Robert M Falin — Montgomery County District Attorney's Office, Petitioner
William Henry Cosby, Jr.
Jennifer Bonjean — Bonjean Law Group, Respondent