No. 18-8857

Jeffrey A. Weisheit v. Indiana

Lower Court: Indiana
Docketed: 2019-04-16
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-circumstances penalty-phase strickland-standard strickland-v-washington williams-v-taylor
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus Punishment CriminalProcedure JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2019-06-20
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Indiana Supreme Court contravened Strickland by acknowledging counsel made mistakes, but not finding them to be deficient performance even though they were clustered in counsel's penalty phase representation

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED FOR REVIEW , 1. Whether the Indiana Supreme Court contravened Strickland by . acknowledging counsel made mistakes, but not finding them to be deficient performance even though they were clustered in counsel’s penalty phase representation. 2. Whether the Indiana Supreme Court contravened Strickland and Williams on the prejudice prong by considering the aggravating circumstances in a death penalty. case dispositive without balancing them against the aggregate mitigating circumstances. Page 2 of 15

Docket Entries

2019-06-24
Petition DENIED.
2019-06-05
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/20/2019.
2019-05-16
Brief of respondent State of Indiana in opposition filed.
2019-04-12
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due May 16, 2019)

Attorneys

Jeffrey Weisheit
John Arthur PinnowState Public Defender, Petitioner
John Arthur PinnowState Public Defender, Petitioner
State of Indiana
Thomas M. Fisher — Respondent
Thomas M. Fisher — Respondent