No. 18-8652

Ammar Asimfaruq Harris v. Nevada

Lower Court: Nevada
Docketed: 2019-04-01
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: 5th-amendment capital-case constitutional-error due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment harmless-error jury sixth-amendment
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2019-05-30
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether Mr. Harris' rights under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth amendments to a fair trial by jury were violated

Question Presented (from Petition)

QUESTION PRESENTED Whether Mr. Harris' rights under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth amendments to a fair trial by jury were violated when the Nevada Supreme Court incorrectly used a de facto overwhelming evidence test rather than the appropriate harmless error test, in determining whether the admission of grotesque photographs was a constitutional error in his capital case? i

Docket Entries

2019-06-03
Petition DENIED.
2019-05-15
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/30/2019.
2019-05-10
Reply of petitioner Ammar Asimfaruq Harris filed.
2019-05-10
Certificate of Service filed with respect to reply brief of petitioner Ammar Asimf Aruq Harris.
2019-04-30
Brief of respondent State of Nevada in opposition filed.
2019-03-27
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due May 1, 2019)

Attorneys

Ammar Asimfaruq Harris
Thomas Allen EricssonOronoz & Ericsson, LLC, Petitioner
Thomas Allen EricssonOronoz & Ericsson, LLC, Petitioner
State of Nevada
Charles William ThomanClark County Nevada District Attorney's Office, Respondent
Charles William ThomanClark County Nevada District Attorney's Office, Respondent