No. 24A540
Timothy R. Brown v. Massachusetts
Tags: constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-resentencing due-process fourteenth-amendment retroactive-rule
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Question Presented (from Petition)
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires a State to apply to the resentencing of a criminal defendant, a rule of law defining an element of a criminal offense that was new with respect to the case when announced in the decision on direct appellate review, but was no longer new at the time of resentencing.
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires retroactive application of a new rule of law defining a criminal offense element when the rule was no longer new at the time of resentencing
Docket Entries
2024-12-04
Application (24A540) granted by Justice Jackson extending the time to file until February 3, 2025.
2024-11-26
Application (24A540) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from December 4, 2024 to February 2, 2025, submitted to Justice Jackson.
Attorneys
Timothy Brown
David H. Mirsky — Mirsky & Petito, Attorneys at Law, Petitioner