No. 19-5894

Damon Bentley v. Connie Horton, Warden

Lower Court: Sixth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-09-10
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: civil-procedure clerical-error constitutional-claims due-process federal-review fourteenth-amendment fraud habeas-corpus state-prisoner statute-of-limitations
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2019-11-08
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause is violated when a State prisoner is not given a complete and fair hearing in the district court when he files a 60(d) motion alleging fraud to expose a state trial court's clerk clerical error, which forecloses federal habeas corpus review of constitutional claims

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED Petitioner Bentley's murder conviction rests on a clerical error committed by the Wayne County Clerk Office which denoted the wrong filing date to his post-appeal motion, filed well within the one year time requirement of 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d), thus, at her own will changed the correct filing date of the post-appeal pleadings to a date beyond §2244(d) one-year statute limit. The sua sponte changing of the filing date, by the Clerk of the Court, to the post-appeal pleadings foreclosed federal habeas corpus review of Petitioner Bentley's federal constitutional claims. Had the Clerk of the Court office . Gorrectly noted the filing date as August 26, 2005, the procedural bar of §2244(d) would not ‘have been erroneously applied to this case by the district court foreclosing federal : review of constitutional claims that warrants the granting of the writ. The question presented is: Whether the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause is violated when a State prisoner is not given a complete and fair hearing in the district court when he files a 60(d) motion alleging fraud to expose a state trial court's clerk clerical error, which forecloses federal habeas corpus review of constitutional claims. ;

Docket Entries

2019-11-12
Petition DENIED.
2019-10-24
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/8/2019.
2019-10-21
Waiver of right of respondent Connie Horton, Warden to respond filed.
2019-08-19
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 10, 2019)

Attorneys

Connie Horton, Warden
Fadwa A. HammoudMichigan Department of Attorney General, Respondent
Damon Bentley
Damon Bentley — Petitioner