No. 22-6256
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: alabama-law assisted-suicide constitutional-law criminal-law murder-for-hire retroactive-application retroactivity statutory-interpretation
Key Terms:
DueProcess Punishment Securities Privacy
DueProcess Punishment Securities Privacy
Latest Conference:
2023-02-17
Question Presented (from Petition)
I. When Alabama first enacted Assisted Suicide legislation in
2017 which specifically provided that it amended existing
law and also created a new crime, should it not apply to
Petitioner who was convicted of murder for hire and remains in
prison 30 years later for being hired by the deceased to assist
with his own suicide? [Code of Alabama, §§ 22-8B-1 et seq.
and/or HB 96, Act 231, 2017 Reg. Session]
Question Presented (AI Summary)
When Alabama first enacted Assisted Suicide legislation in 2017 which specifically provided that it amended existing law and also created a new crime, should it not apply to Petitioner who was convicted of murder for hire and remains in prison 30 years later for being hired by the deceased to assist with his own suicide?
Docket Entries
2023-02-21
Petition DENIED.
2023-01-31
Waiver of right of respondent State of Alabama to respond filed.
2023-01-19
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/17/2023.
2022-11-21
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due January 9, 2023)
Attorneys
Robert Gospodareck
William M Dawson Jr. — Petitioner
State of Alabama
Beth Slate Poe — AL Attorney General's Office, Respondent