No. 23-7699

Levoyd A. Jones v. Angela Hunsinger-Stuff, Warden

Lower Court: Sixth Circuit
Docketed: 2024-06-12
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: 6th-amendment brady-violation criminal-procedure direct-evidence due-process evidence ineffective-assistance jurisdiction sixth-amendment trial-counsel uncharged-crime witness-impeachment
Latest Conference: 2024-09-30
Question Presented (from Petition)

I. Whether evidence of an uncharged crime that occured two years after the time-frame of the indictment can be used as direct evidence linking the defendant to the charged offense.

II. Whether there is sufficient evidence of intercourse where the evidence shows, at the most, the defendant made ''contact" with the outside of the buttocks.

III. Whether trial counsel's failure to object to the testimony alleging an uncharged act of intercourse or whether trial counsel's failure to impeach the state's witnesses with their prior inconsistent descriptions was strategic or a violation of the 6th Amendment.

IV. Whether redacting the description of the alleged crime describing the incident in question was permissible or a Brady violation When the redacted description contradicts the trial testimony.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether evidence of an uncharged crime can be used as direct evidence

Docket Entries

2024-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2024-07-25
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/30/2024.
2024-05-30
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due July 12, 2024)

Attorneys

Levoyd Jones
Levoyd A. Jones — Petitioner