No. 24-1148

Dominic Michael Mason v. Catherine S. Bauman, Warden

Lower Court: Sixth Circuit
Docketed: 2025-05-08
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus self-incrimination sentencing
Latest Conference: 2025-06-12
Question Presented (from Petition)

WHETHER DOMINIC MASON IS ENTITLED TO HABEAS CORPUS RELIEF AND RESENTENCING WHERE HIS FIFTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS UNDER THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION WERE VIOLATED WHEN THE MICHIGAN TRIAL COURT USED HIS PRE-ARREST SILENCE (AND OTHER ACTIONS THAT HE TOOK IN FURTHERANCE OF HIS RIGHT TO NOT INCULPATE HIMSELF) AGAINST HIM AT HIS SENTENCING HEARING, AND RELIED ON THIS "MISINFORMATION OF A CONSTITUTIONAL MAGNITUDE TO INAPPROPRIATELY SENTENCE HIM BASED ON THIS MISINFORMATION?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a criminal defendant's pre-arrest silence can be used against him at sentencing in violation of his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights

Docket Entries

2025-06-16
Petition DENIED.
2025-05-27
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/12/2025.
2025-05-22
Waiver of right of respondent Warden Catherine S. Bauman to respond filed.
2025-04-21

Attorneys

Dominic Mason
D. B. CarronLaw Offices of Dana B. Carron, P.C., Petitioner
Warden Catherine S. Bauman
Ann Maurine ShermanMichigan Department of Attorney General, Respondent