No. 19-6578

John Garrett Smith v. Washington

Lower Court: Washington
Docketed: 2019-11-12
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Relisted (2)IFP
Tags: civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction probable-cause standing
Latest Conference: 2020-03-27 (distributed 2 times)
Question Presented (from Petition)

A. Is it legally permissible for a State Superior Court to acknowledge that State's witness is openly committing multiple counts of "perjury worthy of impeachment", and yet each time rule to strike the testimony from the record in order to sustain an ensuing jury-less trial based upon averred fraud?

B) Is it legally permissible for State Courts to fail to follow Constitutional Due Process (4th Amendment) by failing to ratify Probable Cause at indictment for want of legitimate evidence, and yet adjudicate anyway in the absence of jurisdiction that can ONLY be obtained by ratification of Probable Cause?

C) Is it legally permissible for State Courts to excuse a reasonable cause for Injustice, namely bias, in order to then totally ignore the devastating EFFECTS of that manifest injustice in the forms of Perjury and Fraud to obtain false conviction?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions

Docket Entries

2020-03-30
Rehearing DENIED.
2020-03-11
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/27/2020.
2020-02-05
Petition for Rehearing filed.
2020-01-13
Petition DENIED.
2019-12-23
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/10/2020.
2019-10-07
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 12, 2019)

Attorneys

John Garrett Smith
John Garrett Smith — Petitioner