No. 18-8103

Derrek Heard v. Walter Berry, Warden

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: 2019-02-22
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: 11th-circuit appellate-review civil-rights court-discretion due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-precedent legal-procedure precedent state-courts state-prisoner
Key Terms:
DueProcess FifthAmendment HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2019-04-26
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Are the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit required to apply relevant precedent established in Slack v. McDaniel, to a Georgia state-prisoner's case?

Question Presented (from Petition)

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED G) Are the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit required to apply relevant precedent established in Slack v. McDaniel, to a Georgia state-prisoner's case? (2) Is the Georgia Supreme Court required to apply its own established, relevant precedent to a state-prisoner's appeal consideration? (3) Is it an abuse of discretion when Georgia State-Trial and State Appellate Courts disregard relevant evidence of negligence and make decisions conflicting relevant precedents established by the United States Supreme Court? i

Docket Entries

2019-04-29
Petition DENIED.
2019-04-11
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/26/2019.
2019-02-14
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 25, 2019)

Attorneys

Derrek Heard
Derrek Heard — Petitioner
Derrek Heard — Petitioner