No. 22-6534
Terry Lynn King v. Tony Mays, Warden
Tags: capital-punishment capital-trial constitutional-error cruel-and-unusual-punishment cumulative-error due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment harmless-error judicial-review
Latest Conference:
2023-03-17
Question Presented (from Petition)
(1) Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
requires that courts consider the aggregate effect of multiple legal errors, as the First,
Second, Third, Fifth, Seventh, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits have held, or
whether the effect of each error may be considered in isolation, as the Fourth, Sixth,
and Eighth Circuits have held.
(2) Whether the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause of the Eighth
Amendment requires that courts consider the aggregate effect of multiple legal errors
when reviewing a capital sentence.
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires that courts consider the aggregate effect of multiple legal errors
Docket Entries
2023-03-20
Petition DENIED.
2023-03-02
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/17/2023.
2023-02-24
Reply of petitioner Terry Lynn King filed.
2023-02-13
Brief of respondent Tony Mays in opposition filed.
2023-01-11
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due February 13, 2023)
2022-11-01
Application (22A366) granted by Justice Kavanaugh extending the time to file until January 12, 2023.
2022-10-28
Application (22A366) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from November 13, 2022 to January 12, 2023, submitted to Justice Kavanaugh.
Attorneys
Terry Lynn King
Shawn Nolan — Defender Association of Philadelphia, Petitioner
Tony Mays
John Henry Bledsoe III — Office of Tennessee Attorney General, Respondent