No. 19-5239

Kenneth Traylor v. Mississippi

Lower Court: Mississippi
Docketed: 2019-07-18
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: actual-innocence due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus Securities
Latest Conference: 2019-10-01
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the petitioner's substantive claim should be heard on the merits as it could not have been raised in earlier proceedings

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW I. The Petitioner’s Substantive Claim Should Be Heard on the Merits, as the Claim Could Not Have Been Raised in an Earlier Proceedings. II. The Petitioner Is in Possession of Newly Discovered Evidence Tending to Prove His Actual Innocence, Meaning That Further Incarceration Would Be a Continued Violation of the Petitioner’s Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments Right to Due Process of Law. TI. Prior Counsel was Ineffective for Failing to Adequately Investigate the Alibi Defense. Likewise, counsel pro se was ineffective on appeal and in the first post conviction pleading.1 IV. The Petitioner Is Entitled to an Evidentiary Hearing on These Matters. ii

Docket Entries

2019-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2019-08-15
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
2019-08-09
Waiver of right of respondent Mississippi to respond filed.
2019-07-15
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 19, 2019)

Attorneys

Kenneth Traylor
Cynthia A. StewartCynthia A. Stewart, Attorney, P.A., Petitioner
Cynthia A. StewartCynthia A. Stewart, Attorney, P.A., Petitioner
Mississippi
Abbie Eason KoonceOffice of the Mississippi Attorney General, Respondent
Abbie Eason KoonceOffice of the Mississippi Attorney General, Respondent