No. 23-6767

Michael Samuel Hudson, Jr. v. Melissa Andrewjeski, Superintendent, Coyote Ridge Corrections Center

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2024-02-15
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: bill-of-rights citizenship due-process fourteenth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-clause hurtado-v-california incorporation-doctrine privileges-and-immunities privileges-immunities
Latest Conference: 2024-03-15
Question Presented (from Petition)

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2. Being a right found within the Fifth Amendment of the Bill of Rights, is the grand jury clause to be protected against State intrusion, as prescribed by the Fourteenth Amendment, as the petitioner is both a citizen of the United States and the state of Washington; the Fifth Amendment provides both a privilege and immunity through its enactment within the Constitution by Congress; and the grand jury is one of the first steps in the process to hold a person to answer for an infamous crime?

3. Can vague State law that creates arbitrary and prejudicial application rules and process deny the defendant a grand jury before being held to answer for an infamous crime, while other citizens of the State have received a grand jury with no legislated specificity to why, be used to deny an individual his liberties and freedoms?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does the Fourteenth Amendment protect rights against state intrusion?

Docket Entries

2024-03-18
Petition DENIED.
2024-02-29
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/15/2024.
2024-02-23
Waiver of right of respondent Melissa Andrewjeski to respond filed.
2023-11-03
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 18, 2024)

Attorneys

Melissa Andrewjeski
Peter Benjamin GonickAttorney General of Washington, Respondent
Michael Samuel Hudson, Jr.
Michael Samuel Hudson, Jr. — Petitioner