No. 24-7397

John Fitzgerald Hanson v. Oklahoma

Lower Court: Oklahoma
Docketed: 2025-06-11
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: brady-violation capital-murder diligence-standard evidence-suppression prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (from Petition)

1) Whether a court may impose a diligence standard rendering any evidence that can be obtained from witnesses per se available via the exercise of reasonable diligence, despite prosecutorial suppression, under Brady v. Maryland , 373 U.S. 83 (1963).

2) Whether a court may require a defendant to demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence that no reasonable fact finder would have returned a guilty verdict to obtain relief for a violation of Brady v. Maryland , 373 U.S. 83 (1963) and for Napue v. Illinois , 360 U.S. 264, 269 (1959) .

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a court may impose a diligence standard rendering evidence inadmissible despite prosecutorial suppression under Brady v. Maryland, and whether a defendant must demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence that no reasonable fact finder would have returned a guilty verdict

Docket Entries

2025-06-11
Application (24A1219) for a stay of execution of sentence of death, submitted to Justice Gorsuch.
2025-06-11
2025-06-11
Response to application from respondent Oklahoma filed.
2025-06-11
Brief of respondent Oklahoma in opposition filed.
2025-06-11
2025-06-11
Reply of applicant John F. Hanson filed.
2025-06-11
Application (24A1219) referred to the Court.
2025-06-11
Petition DENIED.
2025-06-11
Application (24A1219) for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice Gorsuch and by him referred to the Court is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.

Attorneys

John Fitzgerald Hanson
Callie Felicea HellerWestern Dist of Oklahoma Federal Public Defender, Petitioner
State of Oklahoma
Jennifer L. CrabbOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent