No. 23-6232

Charles C. McCrory v. Alabama

Lower Court: Alabama
Docketed: 2023-12-13
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Relisted (7)IFP
Tags: bite-mark bite-mark-analysis conflicted-judge due-process expert-testimony forensic-evidence judicial-recusal recanted-testimony scientific-developments scientific-reliability
Latest Conference: 2024-07-01 (distributed 7 times)
Question Presented (from Petition)

Whether, as several circuits have found, there is a due process right not to be convicted based on forensic evidence later shown to be fundamentally unreliable, or, as the Alabama courts held, due process permits a conviction based on expert testimony that was later recanted and unanimously discredited having been debunked by intervening scientific developments.

Whether due process prohibits an appellate judge from participating in the appeal of a case the judge had actively litigated previously as counsel for one of the parties.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether due process prohibits a conviction based on forensic evidence later shown to be unreliable

Docket Entries

2024-07-02
Petition DENIED. Statement of Justice Sotomayor respecting the denial of certiorari. (Detached Opinion)
2024-06-28
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 7/1/2024.
2024-06-17
Rescheduled.
2024-06-17
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/20/2024.
2024-06-10
Rescheduled.
2024-06-10
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/13/2024.
2024-05-28
Rescheduled.
2024-05-22
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/6/2024.
2024-05-14
Electronic record received from the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals.
2024-05-07
Record Requested.
2024-05-06
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/9/2024.
2024-04-22
Rescheduled.
2024-04-22
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/26/2024.
2024-04-12
Rescheduled.
2024-04-04
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/19/2024.
2024-03-27
Reply of petitioner Charles McCrory filed.
2024-03-13
Brief of respondent Alabama in opposition filed.
2024-01-23
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including March 13, 2024.
2024-01-19
Motion to extend the time to file a response from February 12, 2024 to March 13, 2024, submitted to The Clerk.
2024-01-05
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including February 12, 2024. See Rule 30.1.
2024-01-03
Motion to extend the time to file a response from January 12, 2024 to February 11, 2024, submitted to The Clerk.
2023-12-08
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due January 12, 2024)
2023-10-12
Application (23A321) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until December 9, 2023.
2023-10-05
Application (23A321) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from November 9, 2023 to December 11, 2023, submitted to Justice Thomas.

Attorneys

Charles McCrory
Mark Aaron Loudon-BrownThe Southern Center for Human Rights, Petitioner
State of Alabama
Edmund Gerard LaCour Jr.Office of the Attorney General, Respondent