No. 18-564

Rosemary L. Decosimo v. Tennessee

Lower Court: Tennessee
Docketed: 2018-10-31
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment forensic-science fourteenth-amendment impartiality law-enforcement sixth-amendment standing
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2019-01-04
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the right to a fair trial and due process were violated by a Tennessee law awarding the state forensic lab $250 per conviction-related test

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED Whether the right to a fair trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment and right to due process under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution were violated by Tennessee Code Annotated section 55-10-413(f)(2017) which awarded the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation $250 for every chemical test it conducted that led to a conviction? Whether there is a standard of impartiality required by the right to a fair trial under the Sixth Amendment and the right to due process under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution that is applicable to forensic scientists working for law enforcement agencies?

Docket Entries

2019-01-07
Petition DENIED.
2018-12-05
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/4/2019.
2018-11-26
Waiver of right of respondent Tennessee to respond filed.
2018-10-29
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 30, 2018)

Attorneys

Rosemary L. Decosimo
Gerald Howard SummersSummers, Rufolo, & Rodgers, P.C., Petitioner
Gerald Howard SummersSummers, Rufolo, & Rodgers, P.C., Petitioner
Tennessee
Jonathan David ShaubOffice of the Tennessee Attorney General, Respondent
Jonathan David ShaubOffice of the Tennessee Attorney General, Respondent