No. 19-5012

Frank Sarcona v. United States

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: 2019-07-01
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: actual-innocence constitutional-issues constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-bar prosecutorial-misconduct
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus Securities
Latest Conference: 2019-10-01
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Did the District Court and the Court of Appeals err in relying on procedural bar instead of the underlying constitutional issues by blocking a federal evidentiary hearing and denying the defendant the opportunity to establish actual innocence?

Question Presented (from Petition)

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED , 1. Did the District Court and the Court of Appeals for the llth Circuit err in relying on procedural bar instead of relying on the underlying constitutional issues by blocking a federal evidentuary hearing; thus denying Defendant the opportunity to establish his actual innocence of the conviction? 2. Was Defendant’ _ trial counsel, Mrs. Randy J. Goldet ineffective for failing to call Dr. Forgione to testify at trial on Defendant's behalf to establish Defendant's actual innocence, resulting in a fundamental miscarriage of justice? 3. Was Prosecutor Kerry S. Baron guilty of prosecutorial misconduct and cause a Giglio violation by deliberately misleading the jury by not calling Dr. _Forgione. to testify : and avoiding disclosure of critical exculpatory testimony . . while suborning Mrs. Brock's perjured testimony, which he . obtained through threatening to prosecute Breck unless she testified at trial and “she could tell him something to change his mind"?

Docket Entries

2019-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2019-07-18
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
2019-07-12
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2019-05-16
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due July 31, 2019)

Attorneys

Frank Sarcona
Frank Sarcona — Petitioner
Frank Sarcona — Petitioner
United States
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent