No. 21-8083
IFP
Tags: capital-murder death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prior-conviction state-ground statutory-elements
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus Punishment
DueProcess HabeasCorpus Punishment
Latest Conference:
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Question Presented (from Petition)
Question not identified.
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the death penalty for a murder that does not fall within the narrow class of murders designated as death-eligible
Docket Entries
2022-06-08
Application (21A799) referred to the Court.
2022-06-08
Petition DENIED.
2022-06-08
Application (21A799) for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice Kagan and by her referred to the Court is denied. The petition for a writ of habeas corpus is denied.
2022-06-07
Petition for writ of habeas corpus and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed.
2022-06-07
Application (21A799) for a stay of execution of sentence of death, submitted to Justice Kagan.
2022-06-07
Brief of respondent David Shinn et al. in opposition filed.
2022-06-07
Response to application from respondent David Shinn et al. filed.
Attorneys
David Shinn et al.
Jeffrey Lee Sparks — Arizona Attorney General, Respondent
Frank Atwood
Amy Pickering Knight — Knight Law Firm, PC, Petitioner