No. 18-9659

In Re Quisi Bryan

Lower Court: N/A
Docketed: 2019-06-13
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: constitutional-law death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus hurst-claim hurst-v-florida jury-determination jury-trial retroactive-application retroactivity sixth-amendment sixth-circuit
Key Terms:
HabeasCorpus Punishment JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2019-10-01
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Ohio Supreme Court's merits denial of Bryan's Hurst claim was erroneous insofar as appellate reweighing cannot cure the errors that affected the jury deliberations in Bryan's case?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED FOR REVIEW Bryan’s habeas petition presents exceptional circumstances that, if left unresolved, will result in disparate interpretations of the federal Constitution across the several states so that the Constitution may mean one thing in Ohio and another thing in other states. If the Sixth Circuit’s holding in this case is correct, then federal courts are barred from reviewing and unifying the States’ individual interpretations of federal constitutional law in instances where the States voluntarily apply new law retroactively without direction from this court to do so. If the Sixth Circuit’s holding in this case is correct, Bryan may be put to death without any federal court ever reviewing whether the State of Ohio unlawfully infringed upon his federal constitutional rights. The questions presented are: L. Whether the Ohio Supreme Court’s merits denial of Bryan’s Hurst claim was erroneous insofar as appellate reweighing cannot cure the errors that affected the jury deliberations in Bryan’s case? I. Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2244 prevents a federal habeas court from reviewing a state court’s voluntary and independent retroactive application of a new rule of federal constitutional law in order to ensure the uniform interpretation of federal constitutional law across all states? III. Whether Bryan’s Hurst claim became newly-ripened within the meaning of Panetti v. Quarterman, 551 U.S. 930 (2007), and Stewart v. Martinez-Villareal, 523 U.S. 637 (1998), thereby permitting federal habeas review of the claim in a second-in-time first habeas petition, when the state of Ohio retroactively applied a new rule of constitutional law to Bryan’s case giving him his first opportunity to litigate and exhaust the claim in state court? i

Docket Entries

2019-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2019-08-22
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
2019-08-14
Reply of petitioner Quisi Bryan filed.
2019-08-06
Brief of respondent Tim Shoop, Warden in opposition filed.
2019-06-27
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including August 14, 2019.
2019-06-24
Motion to extend the time to file a response from July 15, 2019 to August 14, 2019, submitted to The Clerk.
2019-06-06
Petition for writ of habeas corpus and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed.

Attorneys

Quisi Bryan
Alan Curtis RossmanOffice of the Federal Public Defenders, Petitioner
Alan Curtis RossmanOffice of the Federal Public Defenders, Petitioner
Tim Shoop, Warden
Benjamin Michael FlowersOhio Attorney General Dave Yost, Respondent
Benjamin Michael FlowersOhio Attorney General Dave Yost, Respondent