No. 18-1413

Brandon D. Woodruff v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-05-10
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: ' 'habeas-corpus" ' 'prosecutorial-misconduct" ' 'right-to-confrontation" ' 'right-to-counsel" ' 'sixth-amendment" ' 'standard-of-review' certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jail-telephone-calls prosecutorial-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2019-10-01
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the denial of a certificate of appealability by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals constituted reversible error, given the prosecutor's violation of the petitioner's Sixth Amendment rights by recording, listening to, and making notes from the petitioner's jail telephone calls

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED FOR REVIEW A prosecutor had Petitioner’s jail telephone calls recorded, listened to them, made notes from them and had at least one witness listen to them. This blatant violation of Petitioner’s Sixth Amendment rights should have resulted in dismissal of the charge under United States v. Morrison, 449 U.S. 361, 365-366 (1981). The district court held otherwise and the Fifth Circuit denied a certificate of appealability. Did this denial constitute reversible error? ii

Docket Entries

2019-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2019-06-26
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
2018-12-19
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 10, 2019)

Attorneys

Brandon Woodruff
John Davidson Nation — Petitioner
John Davidson Nation — Petitioner