No. 19-230

Douglas Prade v. Ohio

Lower Court: Ohio
Docketed: 2019-08-21
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence state-courts state-criminal-procedure trial-rights
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2019-11-01
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does Ohio's uniquely elevated burden of proof for new trials based on newly discovered evidence violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED With a single exception, criminal defendants in the United States seeking a new trial based on newly discovered evidence are required to establish only that the new evidence makes it more likely than not that, in a new trial, they would be acquitted. This is not only the near universal practice today, it also is the historical practice dating back far into the nineteenth century. The exception is Ohio. Under Ohio’s common law, criminal defendants with newly discovered evidence are granted a new trial only if they provide clear and convincing evidence that, in a new trial, they would be acquitted. When there is newly discovered evidence making it more likely than not that, in a new trial, the defendant would be acquitted, does it violate the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause to deny a new trial based on Ohio’s uniquely elevated burden of proof?

Docket Entries

2019-11-04
Petition DENIED.
2019-10-09
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/1/2019.
2019-10-02
Reply of petitioner Douglas Prade filed.
2019-09-19
Brief of respondent State of Ohio in opposition filed.
2019-08-19
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 20, 2019)
2019-05-30
Application (18A1243) granted by Justice Sotomayor extending the time to file until August 19, 2019.
2019-05-29
Application (18A1243) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from June 18, 2019 to August 17, 2019, submitted to Justice Sotomayor.

Attorneys

Douglas Prade
David Booth AldenJones Day, Petitioner
David Booth AldenJones Day, Petitioner
State of Ohio
Jacquenette Susanne CorganSummit County Prosecutor's Office, Respondent
Jacquenette Susanne CorganSummit County Prosecutor's Office, Respondent