No. 19-8318

William Whiteley v. John Willis, et al.

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: 2020-04-21
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: automobile-exception certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure evidence-law exculpatory-evidence eyewitness fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure warrantless-search
Key Terms:
FourthAmendment HabeasCorpus CriminalProcedure
Latest Conference: 2020-06-11
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability on his claim that the warrantless search of his automobile's glove compartment violated the Fourth Amendment because none of the State of Florida's asserted exceptions, plain-view, search-incident-to-arrest, inventory-search, applied-in-these-circumstances

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED Whether petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability on his claim that the warrantless search of his automobile’s glove compartment violated the Fourth Amendment because none of the State of Florida’s asserted exceptions, plain view, search incident to arrest, or inventory search, applied in these circumstances. Whether petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability on his claim that his trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to investigate and to call as a witness an exculpatory eyewitness. 2

Docket Entries

2020-06-15
Petition DENIED.
2020-05-27
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/11/2020.
2020-05-21
Waiver of right of respondents John Willis, et al. to respond filed.
2020-03-11
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due May 21, 2020)

Attorneys

John Willis
Celia A. Terenzio — Respondent
William Whiteley
Matthew P. FarmerFarmer & Fitzgerald, Petitioner