No. 18-9554

In Re Billie J. Allen

Lower Court: N/A
Docketed: 2019-06-05
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Relisted (2)IFP
Tags: alabama-v-shelton arizona-v-fulminante capital-case capital-punishment due-process gideon-v-wainwright habeas-corpus mccoy-v-louisiana non-capital-case right-to-counsel structural-error
Key Terms:
FifthAmendment HabeasCorpus Punishment CriminalProcedure Privacy JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2020-06-18 (distributed 2 times)
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether McCoy V Louisiana, 136 S. Ct. 1500 (2018) is a new 'watershed rule

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED : 1. Whether McCoy V Louisiana, 136 S. Ct. 1500 (2018) is a new "watershed rule", akin to Gideon v Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963), which falls within the "watershed rule paradigm", because "the effect of 'revoking [counsel's] agency'" before trial (quoting McCoy), is the denial of "the assistance of Counsel" for trial (quoting Gideon). See Alabama v Shelton, 535 U.S. 654 (2002) ("Where the inference . . . draw[n] is that it is the sheer importance of ‘the right to counsel’ that is the ‘primacy in the analysis'") (emphasis added). /2,Where every conduct of a non-capital case sand capital case proceedings are different; the prosecutor; defense counsel (their experience and strategies); the judge; the motions filed and not filed; the rulings and orders; the jury (a death qualified jury or a regular jury); the jury questionnaires; the trial; the opening statements; closing statements; and then the level of the sentence that can be imposed. ; Whether it's a "structural error", "affecting the framework within which the trial proceeds" Arizona v Fulminante, 499 U.S. 279, 309-310 (1991), when the grand jury is excluded from authorizing a non-capital case to proceed to trial with capital case proceedings and an enhanced punishment; and both the government and the court "guess" it's what the grand jury "would've authorized." ; . , 3. Whether trial counsel not discovering and not presenting "negative DNA results" and "negative gasoline results" that would've exonerated the defendant at trial, because counsel went against the defendant's objective to maintain and prove the defendant's : innocence at trial, qualify as "exceptional circumstances to warrant the excercise of this Court's discretionary power to issue an original writ of habeas corpus." (quoting S. Ct. R. 20.4(a)). See In re Davis, 557 U.S. 952, 953 (2009) ("[T]he substantial 'risk' of putting an innocent man to death. . . is sufficiently ‘exceptional’ to warrant utlization of this Court's . . . original habeas jurisdiction." (Stevens, J., concurring, joined by Ginsburg, J., and Breyer, J..).

Docket Entries

2020-06-22
Rehearing DENIED.
2020-06-02
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/18/2020.
2020-05-19
Petition for Rehearing filed.
2020-05-18
Petition DENIED.
2020-04-23
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/15/2020.
2020-04-03
Reply of petitioner Billie J. Allen filed.
2020-03-26
Brief of respondent United States in opposition filed.
2020-02-12
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including March 26, 2020.
2020-02-11
Motion to extend the time to file a response from February 12, 2020 to March 26, 2020, submitted to The Clerk.
2020-01-10
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including February 12, 2020.
2020-01-09
Motion to extend the time to file a response from January 13, 2020 to February 12, 2020, submitted to The Clerk.
2019-12-11
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including January 13, 2020.
2019-12-10
Motion to extend the time to file a response from December 12, 2019 to January 13, 2020, submitted to The Clerk.
2019-10-31
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including December 12, 2019.
2019-10-30
Motion to extend the time to file a response from November 4, 2019 to December 12, 2019, submitted to The Clerk.
2019-10-02
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including November 4, 2019.
2019-10-01
Motion to extend the time to file a response from October 4, 2019 to November 4, 2019, submitted to The Clerk.
2019-08-30
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including October 4, 2019.
2019-08-29
Motion to extend the time to file a response from September 4, 2019 to October 4, 2019, submitted to The Clerk.
2019-07-30
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including September 4, 2019.
2019-07-29
Motion to extend the time to file a response from August 5, 2019 to September 4, 2019, submitted to The Clerk.
2019-07-24
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including August 5, 2019.
2019-07-23
Motion to extend the time to file a response from July 5, 2019 to August 5, 2019, submitted to The Clerk.
2019-05-24
Petition for writ of habeas corpus and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed.

Attorneys

In Re: Billie J. Allen
Billie Jerome Allen — Petitioner
Billie Jerome Allen — Petitioner
United States
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent