No. 18-5651

Samuel W. Swoopes v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al.

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2018-08-20
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: appeal constitutional-law criminal-procedure defendant defendant-exclusion due-process ex-parte jury jury-question mid-deliberation sixth-amendment
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2018-09-24
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does it violate Due Process and the Sixth Amendment to exclude a defendant from the court's consideration and answering of a jury question?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Does it violate Due Process and the Sixth Amendment to exclude a defendant from the court’s consideration and answering of a jury question? 2. Did the trial judge’s incorrect and prejudicial answer to a jury question violate Due Process and the Sixth Amendment, even if it was not wholly ex parte? i

Docket Entries

2018-10-01
Petition DENIED.
2018-08-30
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/24/2018.
2018-08-23
Waiver of right of respondent Charles L. Ryan to respond filed.
2018-08-16
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 19, 2018)

Attorneys

Charles L. Ryan
Jeffrey Lee SparksAZ Attorney General's Office, Respondent
Samuel Swoopes
Lee TuckerFederal Public Defender, Petitioner