No. 19-8208

Jerald Harris v. Richard Jennings, Warden

Lower Court: Eighth Circuit
Docketed: 2020-04-07
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process identification identification-evidence police-misconduct reliability reliability-standard suggestive-circumstances
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2020-05-21
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Do the due process protections against unreliable identification evidence apply to all identifications made under suggestive circumstances, as held by the First Circuit Court of Appeals and other federal court of appeals, or only when the suggestive circumstances were orchestrated by the police, as held by the Missouri Court of Appeals and other courts?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED When a witness in a criminal case identifies a suspect . out-of-court, under suggestive : circumstances which give rise to a substantial likelihood of later misidentification, due process requires the trial judge to determine whether the out-of-court identification and any subsequent in-court identification are reliable before either may be admitted into evidence. Question: Do the due process protections against unreliable identification evidence apply to all identifications made under suggestive circumstances, as held by the First Circuit Court of Appeals and other federal court of appeals, or only when the suggestive circumstances were orchestrated by the police, as held by the Missouri Court of Appeals and other courts? : od

Docket Entries

2020-05-26
Petition DENIED.
2020-05-06
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/21/2020.
2020-04-27
Waiver of right of respondent Richard Jennings to respond filed.
2020-02-24
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due May 7, 2020)
2020-02-05
Application (19A877) granted by Justice Gorsuch extending the time to file until February 28, 2020.
2020-01-03
Application (19A877) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from January 20, 2020 to February 28, 2020, submitted to Justice Gorsuch.

Attorneys

Jerald Harris
Jerald Harris — Petitioner
Richard Jennings
Julie Marie BlakeOffice of the Missouri Attorney General, Respondent