No. 18-7916

Jimmy Lee Wren v. Mississippi

Lower Court: Mississippi
Docketed: 2019-02-12
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP
Tags: cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection post-conviction-relief rule-11 rule-11-sanctions sanctions sentencing sentencing-hearing
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2019-04-26 (distributed 2 times)
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Mississippi Supreme Court erred in denying the petitioner's request to file a successive petition for post-conviction relief based on a new rule of law and imposing monetary sanctions without a hearing

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW 1. Whether a state court has the right to bar a litigant of having access to the courts? 2. Whether due process violations toll the state’s statute of limitations? 3. Whether state court departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings by refusing to consider merits in case involving a “New Rule of Law”? 4. Whether the enforcement of a state statute is unconstitutional when the statute-is not enforced equally with the distribution of sentencing time against defendants of color as enforced against white defendants? 5. Whether the enforcement of a state statute is unconstitutional when the court has discretion to enter the maximum sentence, in the absence of mitigating circumstances being introduced to the court to justify the maximum sentence being imposed? 6. Whether there is a due process violation of cruel and unusual punishment to issue monetary sanctions on a prisoner proceeding as an indigent litigant and has no means to pay any sanctions? . 7. Whether due process requires the “New Rule of Law” to be applied retroactively when the new rule of law is designed to correct an injustice or defect in the old law? 8. Whether legal action is frivolous when defendant tries to get equal and fair treatment under the established laws? ; ; 2 “4 .

Docket Entries

2019-04-29
Rehearing DENIED.
2019-04-10
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/26/2019.
2019-03-26
Petition for Rehearing filed.
2019-03-18
Petition DENIED.
2019-02-28
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/15/2019.
2019-02-25
Waiver of right of respondent Mississippi to respond filed.
2019-01-09
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 14, 2019)

Attorneys

Jimmy Lee Wren
Jimmy Wren — Petitioner
Jimmy Wren — Petitioner
Mississippi
Katy Taylor GerberOffice of the Attorney General State of Mississippi, Respondent
Katy Taylor GerberOffice of the Attorney General State of Mississippi, Respondent