No. 19-5438

Jimmy Fletcher Meders v. Benjamin Ford, Warden

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: 2019-08-02
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: 28-usc-2254 anti-flyspecking-rule circuit-court-procedure clearly-established-law eleventh-circuit federal-court-deference federal-review habeas habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review section-2254 standard-of-review state-court-decision state-court-deference wilson-v-sellers
Key Terms:
HabeasCorpus Securities
Latest Conference: 2019-10-11
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Eleventh Circuit's adherence to its 'no-grading-papers-anti-flyspecking-rule' is incompatible with Wilson-v-Sellers

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit’s adherence to its self-styled “no-grading-papers, anti-flyspecking rule” for the application of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) is incompatible with this Court’s directive in Wilson v. Sellers, 138 S.Ct. 1188, 1192 (2018), that a federal court must “review[] the specific reasons given by the state court and defer[] to those reasons if they are reasonable”? 2. Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in this case when it denied habeas relief by creating and deferring to its own reasons supporting the state court decision instead of assessing the objective reasonableness of that decision in light of the record and this Court’s clearly established law? i

Docket Entries

2019-10-15
Petition DENIED.
2019-09-19
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/11/2019.
2019-09-16
Reply of petitioner Jimmy Fletcher Meders filed. (Distributed)
2019-08-30
Brief of respondent Georgia Diagnostic Prison Warden in opposition filed.
2019-07-30
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 3, 2019)
2019-05-13
Application (18A1153) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until August 1, 2019.
2019-05-03
Application (18A1153) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from June 2, 2019 to August 1, 2019, submitted to Justice Thomas.

Attorneys

Georgia Diagnostic Prison Warden
Sabrina D. GrahamSenior Assistant Attorney General, Respondent
Sabrina D. GrahamSenior Assistant Attorney General, Respondent
Jimmy Fletcher Meders
James K. JenkinsMaloy Jenkins Parker, Petitioner
James K. JenkinsMaloy Jenkins Parker, Petitioner