No. 24-5930

Anthony Tawon Williams v. Georgia

Lower Court: Georgia
Docketed: 2024-11-07
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment merger-errors sentencing
Key Terms:
Immigration
Latest Conference: 2025-01-10
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Whether a defendant indicted, tried, and found guilty of multiple counts of felony murder for the death of a single victim and later finds out that those underlying felonies was actually a separate and multi-victim incident with its own separate felony for death, and therefore a new murder by a different individual would violate the outstanding Constitutional 5th Amendment right to due process?

2. Whether a sentence is void and illegal if it was based on misinformation given to the trial court during sentencing where injured parties on sentencing, during Court refuses to correct the trial court made several merger errors and the trial court and the Georgia Supreme Court errors, would this violate the defendants fourteenth Amendment's Constitutional right to due process of law?

3. Are there any other circumstances other than giving "more time than the law allows" which would make a sentence void and illegal?

4. Whether or not if a criminal defendant is mislead as to the charges he is facing and the amount of time they carry out throughout the trial and sentencing does this amount to a violation of the defendants Constitutional fourteenth Amendment's right under the due process right to a fundamentally fair trial?

5. Whether or not if every case which a criminal defendant was found guilty of felony murder for a single homicide, the additional felony murders were vacated by operation of law except in one particular case, Anthony Tawon Williams' case, would this not constitute a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a criminal defendant's sentence violates the Fourteenth Amendment's due process rights when the trial court refuses to correct merger errors and the defendant was misled about charges throughout trial

Docket Entries

2025-01-13
Petition DENIED.
2024-12-19
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/10/2025.
2024-10-09
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 9, 2024)

Attorneys

Anthony Tawon Williams
Anthony Tawon Williams — Petitioner