No. 18-7796

Domineque Ray v. Alabama

Lower Court: Alabama
Docketed: 2019-02-06
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: brady-disclosure brady-evidence brady-v-maryland due-process fair-trial incarceration incarceration-records institutional-files mental-health-records postconviction-relief star-witness statute-of-limitations
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does Brady v. Maryland require the State to obtain and produce to the defense all available prison or other incarceration or institutional files comprising Brady evidence relating to an incarcerated or institutionalized person who is expected to be the star witness in a criminal case?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED A. Does Brady v. Maryland require the State to obtain and produce to the defense all available prison or other incarceration or institutional files comprising Brady evidence relating to an incarcerated or institutionalized person who is expected to be the star witness in a criminal case? B. Did the Alabama courts wrongfully extend District Attorney v. Osborne by holding that Brady never applies to the postconviction context, even when a Brady violation deprived the petitioner of a fair trial, and where that fair-trial violation was perpetuated by the State in the postconviction process? (iii)

Docket Entries

2019-02-07
Application (18A813) referred to the Court.
2019-02-07
Application (18A813) denied by the Court.
2019-02-07
Petition DENIED.
2019-02-07
Brief of respondent Alabama in opposition filed.
2019-02-07
Reply of petitioner Domineque Ray filed.
2019-02-06
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 8, 2019)
2019-02-06
Application (18A813) for a stay of execution of sentence of death, submitted to Justice Thomas.

Attorneys

State of Alabama
Richard Dearman AndersonOffice of the Attorney General, State of Alabama, Respondent
Richard Dearman AndersonOffice of the Attorney General, State of Alabama, Respondent