No. 22-6538

Tremane Wood v. Oklahoma

Lower Court: Oklahoma
Docketed: 2023-01-17
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: capital-successor-statute collateral-review due-process eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-claims fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence postconviction-review sixth-amendment state-prisoners successor-postconviction
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus Punishment Jurisdiction
Latest Conference: 2023-03-31
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. When states open their postconviction forums to federal claims raised in a successor posture based on newly-discovered evidence, do they have to administer those forums evenhandedly, or may they discriminate against newly-discovered federal claims brought by death-sentenced prisoners because of their status?

2. Does the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals' refusal to consider the merits of Mr. Wood's concededly meritorious, newly-discovered federal Constitutional claim discriminate against his federal rights?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Fourteenth Amendment requires states to afford state prisoners some adequate corrective process for the hearing and determination of claims of violation of federal constitutional guarantees

Docket Entries

2023-04-03
Petition DENIED. Justice Gorsuch took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.
2023-03-16
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/31/2023.
2023-03-02
Reply of petitioner Tremane Wood filed.
2023-02-16
Brief of respondent Oklahoma in opposition filed.
2023-01-12
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due February 16, 2023)
2022-11-02
Application (22A371) granted by Justice Kavanaugh extending the time to file until January 15, 2023.
2022-10-28
Application (22A371) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from November 16, 2022 to January 15, 2023, submitted to Justice Kavanaugh. (Justice Gorsuch is recused).

Attorneys

State of Oklahoma
Joshua Luke LockettOklahoma Office of the Attorney General, Respondent
Tremane Wood
Amanda Christine BassFederal Public Defender, District of Arizona, Petitioner