No. 19-7652

Steven Craig Whyte v. United States

Lower Court: Sixth Circuit
Docketed: 2020-02-12
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: common-sense common-sense-topics daubert daubert-standard drug-enforcement drug-experts evidence-admissibility expert-testimony jury-instructions kumho-tire
Key Terms:
Punishment JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2020-03-20
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether this Court's Daubert/Kumho Tire jurisprudence bars presentation of law-enforcement agent 'drug experts' testifying regarding plain-English exchanges and common-sense topics within a jury's grasp

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED Whether this Court’s Daubert/Kumho Tire jurisprudence bars presentation of law-enforcement agent “drug experts” testifying regarding plain-English exchanges and common-sense topics within a jury’s grasp. Whether the Sixth Amendment and this Court’s jurisprudence within the last twenty years finally call for overturning the conclusions in Almendarez-Torres v. United States. Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits mandatory life sentences in strictliability circumstances such as Mr. Whyte’s, where even the government’s allegations showed Mr. Whyte did not distribute the lethal drugs to the decedent, did not know the decedent, and could not have known how the decedent would use the drugs or that the decedent would overdose on the drugs. i

Docket Entries

2020-03-23
Petition DENIED.
2020-02-27
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/20/2020.
2020-02-25
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2020-02-10
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 13, 2020)

Attorneys

Steven Whyte
Scott GrahamScott Graham PLLC, Petitioner
Scott GrahamScott Graham PLLC, Petitioner
United States
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent