No. 24-6891

Davone Unique Anderson v. Pennsylvania

Lower Court: Pennsylvania
Docketed: 2025-03-31
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: custodial-interrogation due-process involuntary-confession mental-health-crisis right-to-counsel self-incrimination
Latest Conference: 2025-06-18
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Whether a statement to a corrections officer made by an individual who has just attempted suicide while in custody is "voluntary" when the prison has denied his request for counsel for more than 11 hours and engaged in physically and psychologically coercive conduct that has exacerbated his continuing mental health crisis.

2. Whether statements made at a third police interview of an individual in mental health crisis who has been denied counsel for 16½ hours and has been physically relocated from the prison medical unit to the same interview room in which he has already been subjected to two prior blatantly unconstitutional interrogations by the same detectives are inherently involuntary custodial statements. See Colorado v. Connelly, 479 U.S. 157 (1986); Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 460 (1966).

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a statement to a corrections officer made by an individual who has just attempted suicide while in custody is 'voluntary' when the prison has denied his request for counsel for more than 11 hours and engaged in physically and psychologically coercive conduct that has exacerbated his continuing mental health crisis

Docket Entries

2025-06-23
Petition DENIED.
2025-06-04
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/18/2025.
2025-05-29
Reply of Davone Unique Anderson submitted.
2025-05-29
2025-05-20
Brief of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in opposition submitted.
2025-05-19
Brief of respondent Pennsylvania in opposition filed.
2025-04-24
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including May 30, 2025.
2025-04-23
Motion of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for an extension of time submitted.
2025-04-23
Motion to extend the time to file a response from April 30, 2025 to May 30, 2025, submitted to The Clerk.
2025-03-24
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 30, 2025)
2025-01-02
Application (24A637) granted by Justice Alito extending the time to file until March 22, 2025.
2024-12-23
Application (24A637) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from February 20, 2025 to April 21, 2025, submitted to Justice Alito.

Attorneys

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Jennifer Ann RobinsonCumberland County Office of the District Attorney, Respondent
Davone Unique Anderson
Robert Brett DunhamPhillips Black, Inc., Petitioner