No. 18-9081

Scott Books v. United States

Lower Court: Seventh Circuit
Docketed: 2019-05-01
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: brooks-v-tennessee coerced-confession confession-suppression criminal-procedure due-process impeachment right-to-counsel self-incrimination self-incrimination-5th-amendment
Key Terms:
FifthAmendment DueProcess CriminalProcedure
Latest Conference: 2019-05-30
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Under Brooks v. Tennessee, did the district court's ruling permitting impeachment with the coerced confession and its physical fruit impermissibly interfere with defendant's right to counsel about testifying in his own defense?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

question presented is under Brooks v. Tennessee, 406 U.S. 605, 612-13 (1972), did the district court’s ruling permitting impeachment with the confession and its fruit impermissibly interfere with defendant's right to counsel about “the actual worth” of defendant testifying in his own defense? The second question presented is did the Seventh Circuit err when it distinguished the impeachment ruling as “far afield from the extreme circumstances” in Brooks where state statute required the defendant to testify first in the defense’s case or not at all, contrary to the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination? ii

Docket Entries

2019-06-03
Petition DENIED.
2019-05-15
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/30/2019.
2019-05-07
Waiver of right of respondent United States of America to respond filed.
2019-04-29
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due May 31, 2019)

Attorneys

Scott Books
Michael Ajay ChandraOffice of the Federal Public Defender, Petitioner
United States of America
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent