No. 18-8624

Bruce Elliott Miller v. Alabama

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: 2019-03-29
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: actual-innocence aedpa-procedural-bar constitutional-deficiency due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus indictment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel statute-of-limitations strickland-standard strickland-test
Key Terms:
FifthAmendment DueProcess FourthAmendment HabeasCorpus CriminalProcedure Privacy JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2019-04-26
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether trial counsel's failure to make a timely objection or file a pretrial motion to dismiss a fatally flawed indictment can validate a 'constitutionally deficient' indictment over the Fifth Amendment's personal guarantee

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED TRIAL COUNSEL FAILURE TO MAKE A TIMELY OBJECTION OR FILE A PRETRIAL MOTION TO DISMISS A FATALLY FLAWED INDICTEMENT CANNOT VALIDATE A “CONSTITUTIONALLY DEFICIENT” INDICTMENT OVER THE FIFTH AMENDMENTS PERSONAL GUARANTEE THAT “NO PERSON SHALL BE HELD TO ANSWER” FOR A CAPITAL OR OTHERWISE INFAMOUS CRIME. WHETHER THE COURTS INCORRECTLY DETERMINED THE PETITIONER FAILED TO SHOW INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL WAS “CONTRARY TO” OR “INVOLVE AN UNREASONABLE APPLICATION OF CLEARLY ESTABLISHED FEDERAL LAW, WHERE HE CLEARLY MEET THE TWO-PRONG STANDARD IN STRICKLAND. WHETHER THE PETITIONER HAS PRESENTED “A COLORABLE SHOWING OF ACTUAL (FACTUAL) INNOCENCE THAT SERVES AS A GATEWAY THROUGH THE OR PROCEDURAL BAR FOR LATE “FIRST” HABEAS CORPUS PETITION.

Docket Entries

2019-04-29
Petition DENIED.
2019-04-11
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/26/2019.
2019-04-04
Waiver of right of respondent Alabama to respond filed.
2019-01-03
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 29, 2019)

Attorneys

Alabama
Paul David BjurbergAlabama Attorney General's Office, Respondent
Paul David BjurbergAlabama Attorney General's Office, Respondent
Bruce E. Miller
Bruce E. Miller — Petitioner
Bruce E. Miller — Petitioner