No. 19-5997

Robert Williams, Jr. v. Massachusetts

Lower Court: Massachusetts
Docketed: 2019-09-19
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: actual-innocence capital-murder cause-of-death constitutional-rights death-certificate due-process forensic-evidence judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence skull-injury stab-wound x-ray
Key Terms:
HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2019-11-15
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the cause of death affected the jury's judgment in a capital murder case

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED — an ; ; Whether, in order to prove actual innocence, the cause of death, ina capitol murder case, had an affect . : on the judgment of the jury, and where Defendant Robert a , . Williams, Jr. has tiow obtained newly discovered evidence : ; in the form of an x-ray of the skull of the victim, that . _ _ has been digitized and put on a thumb drive, and establishes . . _the victim did not meet his untimely demise as the result . ofa stab wound to. the skull and brain, as claimed by the ; state and allegedly corroborated by the death certificate, . which was also false. The aforementioned x-ray has been : o received and reviewed by United States District Court Judge, a Allison D. Burroughs, who has confirmed that the victim oe . , did not suffer a stab wound to the skull and brain, see Attachment C, page 4, footnote 2. . a

Docket Entries

2019-11-18
Petition DENIED.
2019-10-31
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/15/2019.
2019-07-02
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 21, 2019)

Attorneys

Robert Williams, Jr.
Robert Williams Jr. — Petitioner
Robert Williams Jr. — Petitioner