No. 19-7862

Wesley Paul Coonce, Jr. v. United States

Lower Court: Eighth Circuit
Docketed: 2020-03-03
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Relisted (4)IFP
Tags: atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment confrontation-clause eighth-amendment equal-protection fifth-amendment intellectual-disability moral-culpability sentencing-hearing
Key Terms:
AdministrativeLaw DueProcess FifthAmendment Punishment JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2021-10-29 (distributed 4 times)
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the execution of a defendant with intellectual disability that arose after age 18 violates the Eighth and Fifth Amendments

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Because the age at which a capital defendant became intellectually disabled does not bear on his moral culpability, did the Court of Appeals err in concluding that the Eighth and Fifth Amendments permit the government to execute Petitioner — though his 71 1.Q. and severe adaptive deficits otherwise meet the criteria for a medical diagnosis of intellectual disability that would bar his execution under 18 U.S.C. § 3596(c) and Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002) — solely because his impairment originated at age 20 rather than before age 18? 2. Did the Court of Appeals err in concluding, like other Circuits but unlike numerous state courts of last resort, that notwithstanding this Court’s recent teaching concerning the Sixth Amendment’s Confrontation Clause, its seventy-year-old decision in Williams v. New York, 337 U.S. 241 (1949), allows the admission of testimonial hearsay to prove an aggravating factor at a capital sentencing hearing? i

Docket Entries

2021-11-01
Petition DENIED. Justice Sotomayor, with whom Justice Breyer and Justice Kagan join, dissenting from the denial of certiorari. (Detached <a href = 'https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-7862_k536.pdf'>Opinion</a>)
2021-10-25
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/29/2021.
2021-10-12
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/15/2021.
2021-10-04
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/8/2021.
2021-08-05
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/27/2021.
2021-08-02
Reply of petitioner Wesley Coonce, Jr. filed.
2021-07-21
Brief of respondent United States filed.
2021-06-17
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including July 21, 2021.
2021-06-16
Motion to extend the time to file a response from June 21, 2021 to July 21, 2021, submitted to The Clerk.
2021-04-21
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including June 21, 2021.
2021-04-20
Motion to extend the time to file a response from April 20, 2021 to June 21, 2021, submitted to The Clerk.
2021-02-26
Supplemental brief of petitioner Wesley Coonce, Jr. filed.
2021-02-17
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including April 20, 2021.
2021-02-16
Motion to extend the time to file a response from February 19, 2021 to April 20, 2021, submitted to The Clerk.
2020-12-01
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including February 19, 2021.
2020-11-30
Motion to extend the time to file a response from December 1, 2020 to February 19, 2021, submitted to The Clerk.
2020-10-09
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including December 1, 2020.
2020-10-08
Motion to extend the time to file a response from October 13, 2020 to December 1, 2020, submitted to The Clerk.
2020-08-05
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including October 13, 2020.
2020-08-03
Motion to extend the time to file a response from August 5, 2020 to October 12, 2020, submitted to The Clerk.
2020-07-06
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including August 5, 2020.
2020-07-02
Motion to extend the time to file a response from July 6, 2020 to August 5, 2020, submitted to The Clerk.
2020-06-03
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including July 6, 2020.
2020-06-03
Motion to extend the time to file a response from June 3, 2020 to July 6, 2020, submitted to The Clerk.
2020-04-17
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including June 3, 2020.
2020-04-16
Motion to extend the time to file a response from May 4, 2020 to June 3, 2020, submitted to The Clerk.
2020-03-30
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including May 4, 2020.
2020-03-27
Motion to extend the time to file a response from April 2, 2020 to May 4, 2020, submitted to The Clerk.
2020-02-28
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 2, 2020)
2019-12-06
Application (19A632) granted by Justice Gorsuch extending the time to file until March 2, 2020.
2019-12-04
Application (19A632) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from January 2, 2020 to March 2, 2020, submitted to Justice Gorsuch.

Attorneys

United States
Brian H. FletcherActing Solicitor General, Respondent
Wesley Coonce, Jr.
Robert Charles OwenLaw Office of Robert C. Owen, LLC, Petitioner