No. 19-1421

Michael Wilford LaFlamme v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2020-06-25
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Relisted (2)
Tags: 6th-amendment bias constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission expert-testimony judicial-discretion jury-selection jury-selection-bias law-enforcement law-enforcement-bias trial-procedure voir-dire
Key Terms:
HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2020-12-04 (distributed 2 times)
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Was Petitioner Prejudiced When Several Prospective Jurors Withheld Crucial Information Pertaining To Employment As Law Enforcement When Asked During Voir Dire, Resulting In Biased Partial Jury Seated

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED 1.) Was Petitioner Prejudiced When Several Prospective Jurors Withheld Grucial Information Pertaining To Employment As Law . Enforcement When Asked Buring Vior Dire, Resulting In Biased Partial Jury SeatednAnd Empaneled. Violation U.S.C.A. Const. 6 2.) Abuse Of Discretion By Seating Improperly Impanelled Police Officer On Jury Over Petitioner's Objections Insisting He Had StrickeniSaid Juror. Violation U.S.C.A. Const. Amend. 6 3.) Was Petitioner Wrongfully Convicted Of Intoxicated Assault Penal Code 49.07 When Toxicology Blood Results Prove He Was In Fact Not Intoxicated Or Impared. Supported By Expert Testimony. 4.) Abuse Of Discretion For Twice permitting The Amending Of Grand Jury Indictment Over Written Objections By petitioner. 5.) Abuse Of Discretion By Trial Judge For Twice permitting all Police Officers Who Testified To Not Produce Video Evidence Requested VIA Defense Subpoena, In Both Trials Under same Cause. 6.) Trial Judge Abused His Discretion By Admitting Falsified Prejudicial Video Into Trial Over Betitioner's Objection(s) and Pleading(S). The questions before this Honorable court are: Is a criminal defendant prejudiced when several prospective jurors withhold information of employment as law enforcement then being seated as juror(s), and trial judge refuses to excusé improperly. :>:52i..impanelled police officer from jury over objection(s), and trying defendant for intoxicated assault when toxicology evidence prove no intoxication, then admitting falsified video into trial. Mr. taFlamme humbly request this Honorable court exercise its supervisory judicial authority as the trial court has so far departed from accepted and usual couses of judicial proceedings. i.

Docket Entries

2020-12-07
Rehearing DENIED.
2020-11-10
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/4/2020.
2020-10-26
Petition for Rehearing filed.
2020-10-05
Petition DENIED.
2020-08-12
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2020.
2020-04-29
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 27, 2020)

Attorneys

Michael LaFlamme
Michael Wilfred LaFlamme — Petitioner