No. 18-8748

Dajuan A. Alridge v. Louisiana

Lower Court: Louisiana
Docketed: 2019-04-09
Status: GVR
Type: IFP
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP
Tags: batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-selection jury-unanimity juvenile-sentencing non-unanimous-jury prima-facie prima-facie-case racial-discrimination
Key Terms:
DueProcess Punishment
Latest Conference: 2020-04-24 (distributed 3 times)
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether statistics alone are sufficient to demonstrate a prima facie case of discrimination in the first step of a Batson analysis?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether statistics alone are sufficient to demonstrate a prima facie case of discrimination in the first step of a Batson analysis? } 2. Whether life without the possibility of parole is an excessive sentence for a juvenile who was convicted by a non-unanimous jury in a circumstantial evidence case? 3. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment fully incorporates the Sixth Amendment guarantee of a unanimous verdict? i

Docket Entries

2020-05-30
MANDATE ISSUED.
2020-05-30
JUDGMENT ISSUED.
2020-04-27
Motion to proceed in forma pauperis and petition for a writ of certiorari GRANTED. Judgment VACATED and case REMANDED for further consideration in light of <i>Ramos</i> v. <i>Louisiana</i>, 590 U. S. ___ (2020). Justice Alito, concurring in the decision to grant, vacate, and remand: In this and in all other cases in which the Court grants, vacates, and remands in light of <i>Ramos</i> v. <i>Louisiana</i>, I concur in the judgment on the understanding that the Court is not deciding or expressing a view on whether the question was properly raised below but is instead leaving that question to be decided on remand.
2020-04-20
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/24/2020.
2019-08-08
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
2019-07-22
Brief of respondent State of Louisiana in opposition filed.
2019-05-17
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including July 22, 2019.
2019-05-14
Motion to extend the time to file a response from June 7, 2019 to July 22, 2019, submitted to The Clerk.
2019-05-08
Response Requested. (Due June 7, 2019)
2019-05-01
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/16/2019.
2019-04-24
Waiver of right of respondent State of Louisiana to respond filed.
2019-04-05
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due May 9, 2019)

Attorneys

Dajuan Alridge
Cecelia TrenticostaThe Capital Appeals Project, Petitioner
Cecelia TrenticostaThe Capital Appeals Project, Petitioner
State of Louisiana
Michelle Ward GhettiAttorney General, State of Louisiana, Respondent
Michelle Ward GhettiAttorney General, State of Louisiana, Respondent
Elizabeth Baker MurrillOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent
Elizabeth Baker MurrillOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent