No. 19-8497

Christopher Lyman v. Kansas

Lower Court: Kansas
Docketed: 2020-05-19
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: confrontation-clause criminal-defendant due-process expert-testimony first-amendment fourteenth-amendment medical-expert religious-discrimination sixth-amendment
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2020-06-25
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a court can deny a criminal defendant his medical expert, who's expert testimony is critical to a material fact in dispute, and base this denial of a expert on false and erroneous findings, using in part, religious factors that have no bearing on the material fact in dispute

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED FOR REVIEW Whether a court can deny a criminal defendant his medical expert, who's expert testimony is critical to a material fact in dispute, and base this denial of a expert on false and erroneous findings, using in part, religious factors that have no bearing on the material fact in dispute. Does this disqualification violate the First Amendment's prohibiting of free exercise of religion, the Sixth Amendment's confrontation clause, compulsory process clause and violates a defendants Fourteenth Amendment right to due process? i

Docket Entries

2020-06-29
Petition DENIED.
2020-06-10
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/25/2020.
2020-06-04
Waiver of right of respondent Kansas to respond filed.
2020-05-12
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due June 18, 2020)

Attorneys

Christopher Lyman
Christopher D. Lyman — Petitioner
Christopher D. Lyman — Petitioner
Kansas
Toby CrouseOffice of Attorney General Derek Schmidt, Respondent
Toby CrouseOffice of Attorney General Derek Schmidt, Respondent