No. 18-5278

Christopher Collings v. Missouri

Lower Court: Missouri
Docketed: 2018-07-19
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: capital-punishment culpability deliberation due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-reliability intoxication jury-instructions mens-rea mental-state
Key Terms:
DueProcess Punishment
Latest Conference: 2018-09-24
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether it violates the Eighth Amendment to instruct a capital jury that they may not consider evidence of the defendant's intoxication at the time of the crime in evaluating whether he deliberated

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED Whether it violates the Eighth Amendment to instruct a capital jury that they may not consider evidence of the defendant’s intoxication at the time of the crime in evaluating whether he deliberated, when such mental state element is a “circumstance of the particular offense,” Woodson v. North Carolina, 428 U.S. 280, 304 (1976), and a “critical facet of the individualized determination of culpability required in capital cases,” Tison v. Arizona, 481 U.S. 137, 156 (1987)?

Docket Entries

2018-10-01
Petition DENIED.
2018-09-06
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/24/2018.
2018-09-04
Reply of petitioner Christopher Collings filed. Distributed
2018-08-20
Brief of respondent Missouri in opposition filed.
2018-07-16
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 20, 2018)

Attorneys

Christopher Collings
Amy Marie BartholowMissouri State Public Defender System, Petitioner
Missouri
Shaun J. Mackelprang — Respondent