No. 19-5605

Stephen Alan Macomber v. Kansas

Lower Court: Kansas
Docketed: 2019-08-23
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: 4th-amendment 5th-amendment burden-of-proof civil-liberties constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment state-action use-of-force
Latest Conference: 2019-10-01
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Question Presented (AI Summary)

Did the trial courts fail to give a specific use-of-force presumption, thereby lowering the burden of proof for the state and violating the defendant's right to due process and a fair trial as guaranteed by the Fourteenth and Sixth Amendments to the United States Constitution?

Docket Entries

2019-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2019-09-12
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
2019-09-05
Waiver of right of respondent Kansas to respond filed.
2019-08-12
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 23, 2019)

Attorneys

Kansas
Toby CrouseOffice of Attorney General Derek Schmidt, Respondent
Stephen Macomber
Stephen Alan Macomber — Petitioner