No. 19-8618
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process false-evidence false-testimony fourteenth-amendment misleading-testimony perjury prosecutorial-misconduct
Key Terms:
DueProcess JusticiabilityDoctri
DueProcess JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference:
2020-09-29
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether the Constitution permits a prosecutor to knowingly use false or misleading testimony, as long as it does not constitute perjurious testimony
Question Presented (OCR Extract)
QUESTION PRESENTED Under the Fourteenth Amendment, prosecutors may not knowingly secure convictions using false or misleading evidence. This Court has never limited the scope of false or misleading evidence to perjurious testimony and has invalidated convictions where the testimony was not shown to have been perjured. The question presented is whether the Constitution permits a prosecutor to knowingly use false or misleading testimony, as long as it does not constitute perjurious testimony. 1
Docket Entries
2020-10-05
Petition DENIED.
2020-06-25
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2020.
2020-06-16
Waiver of right of respondent Georgia to respond filed.
2020-05-21
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due July 6, 2020)
Attorneys
Georgia
Andrew Alan Pinson — Office of the Georgia Attorney General, Respondent
Andrew Alan Pinson — Office of the Georgia Attorney General, Respondent
Kareem Daniels
Veronica Margaret O'Grady — Clayton County Public Defender, Petitioner
Veronica Margaret O'Grady — Clayton County Public Defender, Petitioner