No. 18-335
Nathaniel Teamer v. Scott Lewis, Warden
Response Waived
Tags: constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-bias jury-instructions south-carolina state-court supreme-court truth-seeking
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus
DueProcess HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference:
2018-10-26
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Does the South Carolina Supreme Court's acceptance of judges instructing the jury that its 'sole objective is to simply reach the truth of the matter' and that its role is to 'simply give both the state and the defendant a fair and impartial trial' violate due process?
Question Presented (OCR Extract)
Question Presented Does the South Carolina Supreme Court’s acceptance of judges instructing the jury that its “sole objective is to simply reach the truth of the matter” and that its role is to “simply give both the state and the defendant a fair and impartial trial” violate due process?
Docket Entries
2018-10-29
Petition DENIED.
2018-10-10
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/26/2018.
2018-10-01
Waiver of right of respondents Scott Lewis, et al. to respond filed.
2018-09-12
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 15, 2018)
2018-07-24
Application (18A89) granted by The Chief Justice extending the time to file until September 30, 2018.
2018-07-17
Application (18A89) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from August 1, 2018 to September 30, 2018, submitted to The Chief Justice.
Attorneys
Nathaniel Teamer
Elizabeth Anne Franklin-Best — Blume Franklin-Best & Young, LLC, Petitioner
Elizabeth Anne Franklin-Best — Blume Franklin-Best & Young, LLC, Petitioner
Scott Lewis, et al.
Donald John Zelenka — South Carolina Attorney General's Office, Respondent
Donald John Zelenka — South Carolina Attorney General's Office, Respondent