No. 24-5956

Charles Jordan v. Mississippi

Lower Court: Mississippi
Docketed: 2024-11-12
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion procedural-bars speedy-trial statute-of-limitations
Latest Conference: 2024-12-13
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Can a defendant be deprived of liberty in violation of due process?

2. Can the State be allowed to circumvent statutory limitations through a reenactment MCA civil statute?

3. Should claims affecting a fundamental constitutional right be time barred or procedurally barred?

4. Should state be permitted to prosecute the accused in violation of a statute of limitations?

5. Should Mississippi law conform to principles of justice?

6. What state legal obligation to provide accused with a speedy trial and right to present plea?

7. Is a sentence in violation of MCA a civil limitation and illegal sentence?

8. Does right to due process and can a claim concerning an accused be barred as successive writ or is correcting a fundamentally unjust incarceration protected from procedural bars and judicial discretion?

9. Is the Court assessing MCA claim 21 day rule from reindictment affording the reindicted legal protection?

10. Can the State up the ante because petitioner does not desire to plea after jury trial right is already invoked?

11. Once that right is exercised, must speedy trial and right begin as required sect of the law?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a defendant can be deprived of liberty in violation of due process and whether claims affecting fundamental constitutional rights can be procedurally barred or time-barred

Docket Entries

2025-07-21
Rehearing DENIED.
2025-06-26
DISTRIBUTED.
2025-01-10
Petition for Rehearing filed.
2024-12-16
Petition DENIED.
2024-11-27
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/13/2024.
2024-11-25
Waiver of right of respondent Mississippi to respond filed.
2024-09-27
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 12, 2024)

Attorneys

Charles Jordan
Charles Jordan — Petitioner
Mississippi
Ashley Lauren SulserOffice of the Mississippi Attorney General, Respondent