No. 18-9214

Jessie Livell Phillips v. Alabama

Lower Court: Alabama
Docketed: 2019-05-09
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: autopsy-photograph capital-murder capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial fourteenth-amendment reliable-conviction reliable-sentence
Latest Conference: 2019-10-01
Question Presented (from Petition)

In a capital case, does the admission of a gruesome and completely unnecessary internal autopsy photograph, lacking any probative value, and showing the post-crime mutilation by the medical examiner, violate a defendant's Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process, a fair trial, and a reliable conviction and sentence?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the admission of a gruesome and unnecessary internal autopsy photograph, lacking probative value and showing post-crime mutilation by the medical examiner, violates the defendant's Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights

Docket Entries

2019-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2019-08-22
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
2019-08-08
Brief of respondent State of Alabama in opposition filed.
2019-06-21
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including August 9, 2019.
2019-06-18
Motion to extend the time to file a response from July 10, 2019 to August 9, 2019, submitted to The Clerk.
2019-05-24
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including July 10, 2019.
2019-05-22
Motion to extend the time to file a response from June 10, 2019 to July 10, 2019, submitted to The Clerk.
2019-05-06
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due June 10, 2019)
2019-03-27
Application (18A962) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until May 6, 2019.
2019-03-20
Application (18A962) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from April 4, 2019 to May 6, 2019, submitted to Justice Thomas.

Attorneys

Jessie Phillips
John William Dalton — Petitioner
State of Alabama
Edmund Gerard LaCour Jr.Office of the Attorney General, Respondent