No. 18-8638

Michael Bennefield v. Georgia

Lower Court: Georgia
Docketed: 2019-03-29
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: constitutional-safeguards criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial guilt-determination jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect plea-bargaining plea-proceedings procedural-validity standing structural-defects
Key Terms:
DueProcess FifthAmendment FourthAmendment CriminalProcedure HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2019-05-16
Question Presented (AI Summary)

When Structural Jurisdictional defects prevent a fair proceeding, can any reliable determination of guilt or innocence be deemed fair?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED When Structural Jurisdictional defects prevent a fair proceeding, can any reliable determination of guilt or innocence be deemed fair? When the Plea Proceedings are deficient in the requirements which are the Constitutional safeguards, is the Plea still held as valid? 2 oo /

Docket Entries

2019-05-20
Petition DENIED.
2019-05-01
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/16/2019.
2019-04-25
Waiver of right of respondent Georgia to respond filed.
2019-02-21
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 29, 2019)
2018-12-20
Application (18A630) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until March 8, 2019.
2018-11-05
Application (18A630) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from January 7, 2019 to March 8, 2019, submitted to Justice Thomas.

Attorneys

Georgia
Andrew Alan PinsonOffice of the Georgia Attorney General, Respondent
Andrew Alan PinsonOffice of the Georgia Attorney General, Respondent
Michael Bennefield
Michael Bennefield — Petitioner
Michael Bennefield — Petitioner