No. 23A129
Tags: capital-punishment extraneous-prejudicial-information jury-impartiality mitigation-evidence sixth-amendment waiver-of-rights
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Question Presented (from Petition)
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Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether a capital defendant's waiver of mitigation evidence is knowing and voluntary under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments when the defendant suffered severe childhood trauma and psychological compulsions that motivated the waiver, and whether a jury's exposure to extraneous prejudicial information about a defendant's involvement in an unrelated crime violates the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury in a capital case
Docket Entries
2023-08-16
Application (23A129) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until October 2, 2023.
2023-08-14
Application (23A129) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from August 31, 2023 to October 30, 2023, submitted to Justice Thomas.
Attorneys
Cuhuatemoc Hinricky Peraita
Matthew J. Warren — Sidley Austin LLP, Petitioner