No. 19-5810

Daniel Lopez DeJesus v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-09-05
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: burden-of-proof constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error in-re-winship ineffective-assistance jury-instruction jury-instructions presumption winship
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2019-10-11
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Did the Ninth Circuit err in applying the harmless error analysis to a jury instruction that implicitly included critical elements of the crime charged?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED . Mr. Dejesus alleged that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to object to a jury instruction that effectively aided the state to surpass the necessary threshold of proving elements of the crime charged. Mr. Dejesus was convicted, in large part, by the use of a mandatory, conclusive, and irrebuttable presumptive jury instruction that directed the jury to convict Mr. Dejesus for a crime that the state did not prove under in re Winship. Did the Ninth Circuit err in applying the harmless error analysis to a jury instruction that implicitly included critical elements of the crime charged? i

Docket Entries

2019-10-15
Petition DENIED.
2019-09-26
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/11/2019.
2019-09-09
Waiver of right of respondent Jeff Premo to respond filed.
2019-08-27
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 7, 2019)

Attorneys

Daniel Lopez DeJesus
Daniel Lopez DeJesus — Petitioner
Jeff Premo
Benjamin Noah GutmanOregon Department of Justice, Respondent