No. 22-44

Westley Devone Harris v. Alabama

Lower Court: Alabama
Docketed: 2022-07-15
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury juror-misconduct jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2022-10-14
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Whether a criminal defendant is deprived of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to an impartial jury when a jury member gives dishonest and incomplete answers during voir dire regarding his or her knowledge and familiarity with the defendant and the case.

2. Whether a criminal defendant is deprived of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to an impartial jury when a jury member has a personal firsthand eyewitness account of the defendant's whereabouts during a time-period relevant to the state's case, thereby considering extraneous evidence during guilt and penalty phase deliberations.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a criminal defendant is deprived of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to an impartial jury when a jury member gives dishonest and incomplete answers during voir dire

Docket Entries

2022-10-17
Petition DENIED.
2022-09-28
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/14/2022.
2022-09-28
2022-09-14
2022-08-05
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including September 14, 2022.
2022-08-04
Motion to extend the time to file a response from August 15, 2022 to September 14, 2022, submitted to The Clerk.
2022-07-11
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 15, 2022)
2022-05-31
Application (21A774) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until July 11, 2022.
2022-05-26
Application (21A774) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from June 9, 2022 to July 9, 2022, submitted to Justice Thomas.

Attorneys

State of Alabama
Henry Mitchell JohnsonAlabama Atty General, Respondent
Westley Devone Harris
Louis M. SolomonReed Smith LLP, Petitioner