No. 19-1054

Christa Gail Pike v. Gloria Gross, Warden

Lower Court: Sixth Circuit
Docketed: 2020-02-25
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Amici (1) Experienced Counsel
Tags: cumulative-evidence death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus Punishment Securities JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2020-06-04
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a defendant who asserts that trial counsel failed to present key evidence is precluded from showing prejudice under Strickland v. Washington

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED The questions presented are: 1. Whether a defendant who asserts that trial counsel failed to present key evidence is precluded from showing prejudice under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), unless the evidence omitted at trial differs substantially in subject matter from the evidence actually presented. 2. Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit condemning to death a defendant who was eighteen years old at the time of the offense.

Docket Entries

2020-06-08
Petition DENIED.
2020-05-19
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/4/2020.
2020-05-18
Reply of petitioner Christa Gail Pike filed.
2020-04-02
Motion of petitioner to delay distribution of the petition for a writ of certiorari under Rule 15.5 from April 15, 2020 to May 19, 2020, submitted to The Clerk.
2020-04-02
Motion to delay distribution of the petition for a writ of certiorari until May 19, 2020, granted.
2020-03-26
Brief amici curiae of National Association for Public Defense, et al. filed.
2020-03-26
Brief of respondent Gloria Gross in opposition filed.
2020-02-21
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 26, 2020)
2019-12-17
Application (19A642) granted by Justice Sotomayor extending the time to file until February 24, 2020.
2019-12-06
Application (19A642) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from December 25, 2019 to February 23, 2020, submitted to Justice Sotomayor.

Attorneys

Christa Gail Pike
Elaine Janet GoldenbergMunger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Petitioner
Elaine Janet GoldenbergMunger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Petitioner
Gloria Gross
Richard Davison DouglasState of Tennessee Attorney General, Respondent
Richard Davison DouglasState of Tennessee Attorney General, Respondent
National Association for Public Defense, et al.
Jennifer KinsleySalmon P. Chase College of Law, Amicus
Jennifer KinsleySalmon P. Chase College of Law, Amicus