No. 19-5709

Sam Newman v. Louisiana

Lower Court: Louisiana
Docketed: 2019-08-27
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP Experienced Counsel
Tags: bruton-v-united-states constitutional-interpretation criminal-statute due-process firearm-discharge johnson-v-united-states reasonable-person-standard sessions-v-dimaya supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis vagueness vagueness-doctrine
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2019-10-18
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether Louisiana Revised Statute Annotated § 14:94(A) (1995) is unconstitutionally vague

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether Louisiana Revised Statute Annotated § 14:94(A) (1995), barring the “iNegal use of a weapon,” is unconstitutionally vague under Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015), Sessions v. Dimaya, 138 8. Ct. 1202 (2018), and United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), where it criminalizes the intentional or negligent discharge of a firearm, when it is “foreseeable” to a reasonable adult, that said discharge “may cause death or serious bodily harm.” 2. Whether the Court of Appeal misapplied the harmless error portion of this Court’s holding in Cruz v. New York, 481 U.S. 186 (1987), with respect to hearsay statements of co-defendants that directly incriminated Mr. Newman, when the trial court never issued the standard limiting instruction as to those statements? a. In the alternative, whether Bruton v. United States, 391 U.S. 123 (1968) applies to non-testimonial statements in light of Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004). i

Docket Entries

2019-10-21
Petition DENIED.
2019-10-03
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/18/2019.
2019-09-26
Waiver of right of respondent Louisiana to respond filed.
2019-08-21
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 26, 2019)
2019-05-29
Application (18A1229) granted by Justice Alito extending the time to file until August 22, 2019.
2019-05-23
Application (18A1229) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from June 23, 2019 to August 22, 2019, submitted to Justice Alito.

Attorneys

Louisiana
Elizabeth Baker MurrillOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent
Elizabeth Baker MurrillOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent
Sam Newman
G. Ben CohenThe Promise of Justice Initiative, Petitioner
G. Ben CohenThe Promise of Justice Initiative, Petitioner