No. 23-5700

Paul Gray v. Louisiana

Lower Court: Louisiana
Docketed: 2023-10-03
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-economy montgomery-v-louisiana nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment
Latest Conference: 2023-11-09
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Does the State of Louisiana have the express right to invoke the defense of
"judicial economy " as a ruse for plausible deniability; especially when the
State of Louisiana engineered the action which resulted in the Substantial
and direct violations of the United States Constitutional guarantees?

2. Does this Court 's holding in Montgomery v. Louisiana, No. 14-280, 136
S.Ct. 718 (01/27/2016) - a reasoned judgment - controls subsequent cases
in a similar posture?

3. Is an unconstitutional criminal procedure the same as an unconstitutional
statutory provision being an absolute nullity under this Court 's holding in
Montgomery v. Louisiana, No. 14-280, 136 S.Ct. 718 (01/27/2016)?

4. Does the Louisiana Supreme Court 's judgment in State v. Reddick , 2021-
01893 (La. 10/21/22), ___So. 3d on February 7, 2023 circumvent
the Constitutional protections that are deeply engrained within the Sixth and
Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution?

5. When a trial court - as in Petitioner 's case - direct a jury to reach a non-
unanimous verdict violate the peremptory safeguards of the Sixth
Amendment right to a trial by jury and violate the peremptory safeguards of
the Fourteenth Amendment right to the equal protection of the law?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does the State of Louisiana have the right to invoke 'judicial economy' as a ruse for violations of constitutional guarantees?

Docket Entries

2023-11-13
Petition DENIED.
2023-10-25
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/9/2023.
2023-10-20
Waiver of right of respondent Louisiana to respond filed.
2023-07-13
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due November 2, 2023)

Attorneys

Louisiana
Charles J. BallayDistrict Attorney's Office, 25th Judicial District, Respondent
Paul Gray
Paul Gray — Petitioner