No. 19-7005

Johnnie Lewis Wood v. Virginia

Lower Court: Virginia
Docketed: 2019-12-18
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: 14th-amendment-due-process 6th-amendment-rights conviction fair-trial false-testimony fourteenth-amendment indictment jury-verdict material-misrepresentation sixth-amendment
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2020-01-17
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Was Petitioner's Sixth-Amendment-rights,Fourteenth-Amendment-rights,false-testimony,fair-trial,jury-verdict,conviction violated

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Was Petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment: rights violated when the state and state witnesses presented false testimony and prevented a fair submission of the controversy to the jury and thatjprejudiced the jury's verdict to indict and convict:Petitioner? 2. Did the state decide an important question of federal law that has not been, but should be, settled by this Court, or did.the state decide an important federal question in a way that conflicts with relevant decisions of this Court when the state declined to vacate Petitioner's, convictions and dismiss the indictments when the indictments and convictions were procured through the use of ) false testimony and misrepresentation of material facts? 3. Can an indictment and conviction stand when one of the essential elements of the offense cannot be proven?

Docket Entries

2020-01-21
Petition DENIED.
2020-01-03
Waiver of right of respondent Virginia to respond filed.
2019-12-30
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/17/2020.
2019-12-20
Waiver of right of respondent Virginia to respond filed.
2019-12-11
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due January 17, 2020)

Attorneys

Johnnie Lewis Wood
Johnnie Lewis Wood — Petitioner
Johnnie Lewis Wood — Petitioner
Virginia
Toby Jay HeytensOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent
Toby Jay HeytensOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent