No. 25-5940

Stephen Elliot Powers v. Mississippi

Lower Court: Mississippi
Docketed: 2025-10-22
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct
Key Terms:
DueProcess Punishment Securities JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2026-01-23
Question Presented (from Petition)

(1) Whether the State's suppression of exculpatory evidence of an alternate, original suspect with a nexus to the victim deprived Powers of his right to a fair trial in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment?

(2) Whether the State's suppression of exculpatory DNA material along with misleading statements to the trial court and the jury deprived Powers of his right to a fair trial in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the State's suppression of exculpatory evidence deprived Powers of his right to a fair trial in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment

Docket Entries

2026-01-26
Petition DENIED.
2026-01-08
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/23/2026.
2026-01-05
Reply of Stephen Powers submitted.
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2026-01-05
Reply of petitioner Stephen Elliot Powers filed.
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2025-12-22
Brief of Mississippi in opposition submitted.
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2025-12-22
Brief of respondent Mississippi in opposition filed.
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2025-11-12
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including December 22, 2025.
2025-11-07
Motion of Mississippi for an extension of time submitted.
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2025-11-07
Motion to extend the time to file a response from November 21, 2025 to December 22, 2025, submitted to The Clerk.
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2025-10-17
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due November 21, 2025)
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2025-08-07
Application (25A160) granted by Justice Alito extending the time to file until October 17, 2025.
2025-08-04
Application (25A160) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from September 17, 2025 to October 17, 2025, submitted to Justice Alito.
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Attorneys

Mississippi
LaDonna Curtis Holland — Mississippi Attorney General's Office, Respondent
Stephen Powers
Krissy Casey Nobile — MS Office of Capital Post-Conviction Counsel, Petitioner