No. 18-6337

Travis W. Williams v. Missouri

Lower Court: Missouri
Docketed: 2018-10-16
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: burden-of-proof child-sex-offense criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-evidence fourteenth-amendment mo-const-art-i-18c presumption-of-innocence propensity-evidence
Key Terms:
DueProcess CriminalProcedure JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2018-11-30
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause prohibits evidence that the defendant has an unrelated remote prior child sex offense conviction to establish the defendant committed the presently charged child sex offense with a different child based on his propensity to commit child sex offenses

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED Whether the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause prohibits evidence that the defendant has an unrelated remote prior child sex offense conviction to establish the defendant committed the presently charged child sex offense with a different child based on his propensity to commit child sex offenses because such evidence destroys the presumption of innocence and relieves the state of its burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. | i

Docket Entries

2018-12-03
Petition DENIED.
2018-11-08
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/30/2018.
2018-11-01
Waiver of right of respondent State of Missouri to respond filed.
2018-10-11
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due November 15, 2018)
2018-08-28
Application (18A219) granted by Justice Gorsuch extending the time to file until October 31, 2018.
2018-08-21
Application (18A219) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from October 1, 2018 to October 31, 2018, submitted to Justice Gorsuch.

Attorneys

State of Missouri
Julie Marie BlakeMissouri Attorney General's Office, Respondent
Julie Marie BlakeMissouri Attorney General's Office, Respondent
Travis Williams
William J. SwiftPublic Defender's Office, Petitioner
William J. SwiftPublic Defender's Office, Petitioner