No. 19-8272

Nicholas Cody Tate v. Benjamin Ford, Warden

Lower Court: Georgia
Docketed: 2020-04-16
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: aedpa aedpa-review capital-sentencing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence schriro-v-landrigan strickland-standard strickland-v-washington
Key Terms:
HabeasCorpus Punishment Securities
Latest Conference: 2020-06-18
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Georgia Supreme Court's opinion reversing the state habeas corpus court's reasoned grant of relief based on capital sentencing counsel's prejudicial ineffectiveness under Strickland v. Washington

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED Whether the Georgia Supreme Court’s opinion reversing the state habeas corpus court’s reasoned grant of relief based on capital sentencing counsel’s prejudicial ineffectiveness under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984): (A) was contrary to this Court’s precedents; see Porter v. McCollum, 558 U.S. 30, 40 client with respect to mitigation does not relieve counsel of obligation to investigate and advise); Rompilla v. Beard, 545 U.S. 374, 381 (2005)(“actively obstructive” client with respect to mitigation does not relieve counsel of obligation to investigate and advise); and (B) extended (and misapplied) this Court’s AEDPA decision in Schiro v. Landrigan, 550 U.S. 465 (2007) in a non-AEDPA context? i

Docket Entries

2020-08-24
Rehearing DENIED.
2020-07-30
DISTRIBUTED.
2020-07-17
Petition for Rehearing filed.
2020-06-22
Petition DENIED.
2020-06-03
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/18/2020.
2020-06-03
Reply of petitioner Nicholas Cody Tate filed. (Distributed)
2020-05-18
Brief of respondent Warden, Georgia Diagnostic Prison in opposition filed. (May 27, 2020)
2020-04-13
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due May 18, 2020)
2020-02-03
Application (19A867) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until April 12, 2020.
2020-01-29
Application (19A867) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from February 12, 2020 to April 12, 2020, submitted to Justice Thomas.

Attorneys

Nicholas Cody Tate
Mark Evan OliveLaw Office of Mark E. Olive, P.A., Petitioner
Warden, Georgia Diagnostic Prison
Patricia Beth BurtonState Law Department, Respondent