No. 23A627

Byron James Shepard v. Oklahoma

Lower Court: Oklahoma
Docketed: 2024-01-08
Status: Presumed Complete
Type: A
Tags: continuing-threat death-penalty eighth-amendment fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sentencing-hearing
Key Terms:
AdministrativeLaw DueProcess Punishment Immigration JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (from Petition)

Question not identified.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments permit the imposition of a death sentence based on vague and overly broad continuing threat testimony that may unconstitutionally restrict a defendant's sentencing hearing

Docket Entries

2024-01-08
Application (23A627) granted by Justice Gorsuch extending the time to file until March 18, 2024.
2024-01-02
Application (23A627) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from January 18, 2024 to March 18, 2024, submitted to Justice Gorsuch.
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Attorneys

Byron James Shepard
Jacqueline Humphrey Chafin Sullivan — Oklahoma Indigent Defense System, Petitioner