No. 18-5001

John Theodore Hancock v. United States

Lower Court: Sixth Circuit
Docketed: 2018-06-28
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: burrage-standard but-for-causation causation criminal-law criminal-procedure death-penalty death-resulting due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions sentencing statutory-interpretation
Key Terms:
HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2018-09-24
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a jury instruction that submits the question of whether a death was the result of the accused's offense by simply tracking the statutory language without informing the jury the death 'results from' the offense only if the death would not have occurred but-for the offense satisfies the standard announced by this Court in Burrage v. United States

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED Does a jury instruction that submits the question of whether a death was the result of the accused's. offense by simply 7 , tracking the statutory language without informing the jury the oo . death "results from" the offense only if the death would not have © : occurred but-for the offense satisfy the standard announced by . this Court in Burrage v. United States? : ; Can a jury determine that.a death resulted from an offense ; without receiving proof that the offense provided an indepen; dent cause of death? a .

Docket Entries

2018-10-01
Petition DENIED.
2018-07-19
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/24/2018.
2018-07-11
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2018-06-07
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due July 30, 2018)

Attorneys

John Hancock
John Theodore Hancock — Petitioner
United States
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent