No. 24-6588

In Re Lancey Darnell Ray

Lower Court: N/A
Docketed: 2025-02-19
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: autopsy-determination due-process forensic-pathology insufficiency-of-evidence jackson-v-virginia medical-examiner
Key Terms:
ERISA DueProcess HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2025-03-07
Question Presented (from Petition)

1st QUESTION PRESENTED
Whether state experts ' failure to apply a reliable method to forensic
pathology investigations, as required by state procedural law, when
forming an opinion constitute an insufficiency of evidence claim
under Jackson v. Virginia, U.S. 307, 324, 99 S. Ct. 2781, 61 L. Ed. 2d
560 (1979) and 28 USC § 2254 (f).

2nd QUESTION PRESENTED
Whether testimony of state medical examiners ' reported
determinations —or
matter —regarding manner of death as reported in report of
autopsies violate principles of fundamental fairness and the Due
Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of
the United States when such determinations are not medical
determinations but in fact are subjective determinations.for that medical examiner any

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether state experts' failure to apply a reliable method to forensic pathology investigations constitutes an insufficiency of evidence claim under Jackson v. Virginia and 28 USC § 2254 (f)

Docket Entries

2025-03-10
Petition DENIED.
2025-02-20
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/7/2025.
2025-02-03
Petition for writ of habeas corpus and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed.

Attorneys

Lancey Darnell Ray
Lancey Darnell Ray — Petitioner