No. 19-7096

David Lee Smith v. Rick Jackson

Lower Court: Fourth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-12-30
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP
Tags: civil-rights criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard fingerprint fingerprint-analysis jury jury-confusion probable-cause standing wrongful-conviction
Key Terms:
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Latest Conference: 2020-04-24 (distributed 2 times)
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether petitioner is entitled to a remand with instructions for the district court to order the case dismissed with prejudice because the prosecution's only evidence was a latent fingerprint lift that the jury confused as a latent fingerprint of the petitioner

Question Presented (from Petition)

ESTIONs) PRESENTED ARE 92954 PETITLONER(S\ ENTITLLEA TO REAAAND, INILTH INSTRUCTIONS FOR AISTRICT COURT TQ ORDER CASE ATSMISSED AITTH PREAUDICERECAUSE OF PROSEC.UTIPS ONLY EVIAENCE WAS A LATEMT?FINGER. PRINT LIFT THAT JURY CONFUSED AS A LATEAIT FINGER PREAIT ROTH OF INHECH BELOMGED TA PETITIONER | Yo : TS A LATENT FINGER PRINT LIFT AND A LATENT FIAICER PRENT,.ONE IN THE Same? TS A LATENT FINGER PRINT, LIFTEN ofr SURFACE, EVINENCE OF A RAND ANN LARCENY!

Docket Entries

2020-04-27
Rehearing DENIED.
2020-04-08
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/24/2020.
2020-03-05
Petition for Rehearing filed.
2020-02-24
Petition DENIED.
2020-01-23
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/21/2020.
2020-01-17
Waiver of right of respondent Rick Jackson to respond filed.
2019-12-06
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due January 29, 2020)

Attorneys

David Lee Smith
David L. Smith — Petitioner
David L. Smith — Petitioner
Rick Jackson
Clarence Joe DelForge IIIN.C. Department of Justice, Respondent
Clarence Joe DelForge IIIN.C. Department of Justice, Respondent