No. 19-7488

Donnie Cleveland Lance v. Benjamin Ford, Warden

Lower Court: Georgia
Docketed: 2020-01-29
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment grand-jury grand-jury-selection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment
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Question Presented (AI Summary)

Was petitioner denied his rights under the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments when he was sentenced to death following his indictment by a non-randomly selected grand jury?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

question presented is: Was petitioner denied his rights under the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments when he was sentenced to death following his indictment by a non-randomly selected grand jury? ii CAPITAL CASE

Docket Entries

2020-01-29
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due February 28, 2020)
2020-01-29
Application (19A858) for a stay of execution of sentence of death, submitted to Justice Thomas.
2020-01-29
Application (19A858) referred to the Court.
2020-01-29
Brief of respondent Benjamin Ford in opposition filed.
2020-01-29
Application (19A858) denied by the Court.
2020-01-29
Petition DENIED.

Attorneys

Benjamin Ford
Patricia Beth BurtonState Law Department, Respondent
Patricia Beth BurtonState Law Department, Respondent