No. 18-8106

Benjamin Crump v. Delaware

Lower Court: Delaware
Docketed: 2019-02-22
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: civil-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification false-testimony fourteenth-amendment wrongful-conviction
Latest Conference: 2019-03-22
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a conviction obtained through the use of false witness testimony that is unreliable to identify the defendant at trial must be vacated under the Fourteenth Amendment?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED Whether a, convictan obtaiecl throw gh Shee, USE. OF falce, wrness te reliably ideabty the. detendabt at trral— must be vacated Under the Fourteenth Amendm eat ?

Docket Entries

2019-03-25
Petition DENIED.
2019-03-07
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/22/2019.
2019-02-28
Waiver of right of respondent State of Delaware to respond filed.
2019-02-09
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 25, 2019)
2019-01-16
Application (18A732) granted by Justice Alito extending the time to file until February 15, 2019.
2018-12-05
Application (18A732) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from December 17, 2018 to February 15, 2019, submitted to Justice Alito.

Attorneys

Benjamin Crump
Benjamin Crump — Petitioner
Benjamin Crump — Petitioner
State of Delaware
Maria Teresa KnollOffice of the Attorney GeneralState of Delaware,, Respondent
Maria Teresa KnollOffice of the Attorney GeneralState of Delaware,, Respondent