No. 25-5173

Douglas Dean Welsh v. Bobbi Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al.

Lower Court: Third Circuit
Docketed: 2025-07-22
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: confrontation-clause constitutional-violation cross-examination due-process ineffective-assistance search-warrant
Latest Conference: 2025-09-29
Question Presented (from Petition)

A. DID THE DISTRICT COURT ERROR IN RULING THAT PETITIONER'S
FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS, AND SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO
CONFRONTATION WAS NOT VIOLATED BY THE STATE COURT'S LIMITATION ON THE SCOPE OF
HIS CROSS EXAMINATION OF IHE VICTIM ALISHA DAUBERT ?

B. DID THE DISTRICT COURT ERROR IN RULING THAT IHE IMPOSITION OF
PETITIONER'S TWO LIFE SENTENCES PURSUANT TO A STATUTE DECLARED
UNCONSTITUTIONAL, DID NOT VIOLATE THE FIRST, EIGHT, AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS
?

C. DID IHE DISTRICT COURT ERROR IN RULING THAT TRIAL COUNSEL WAS NOT
INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO PROPERLY RAISE AND LITIGATE THE STALENESS OF THE
INFORMATION UPON WHICH THE SEARCH WARRANT WAS ISSUED FOR PETITIONER'S
RESDIENCE ?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Did the district court err in ruling that the petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process and Sixth Amendment confrontation rights were violated by the state court's limitation on cross-examination of the victim, and did the imposition of life sentences under an unconstitutional statute violate the First, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments, and was trial counsel ineffective for failing to challenge the staleness of the search warrant information?

Docket Entries

2025-10-06
Petition DENIED.
2025-09-04
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2025.
2025-06-16
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 21, 2025)

Attorneys

Douglas Dean Welsh
Douglas Dean Welsh — Petitioner