No. 20-1777

Willard Hall v. Edward Bickham, Warden

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2021-06-24
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: 6th-amendment community-representation due-process effective-assistance fair-cross-section fair-trial fifth-circuit impartial-jury jury-composition probable-cause
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2021-09-27
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the petitioner was deprived of his right to a fair and impartial trial due to his jury not representing a fair cross-section of his community

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED (1) Whether the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and United States District Court . for the Eastern District of Louisiana properly concluded the petitioner was not deprived of sO his right to a fair and impartial trial due to his jury not representing a fair cross-section of his community, | (2) Whether the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and United States District Court | for the Eastern District of Louisiana properly concluded the petitioner received effective assistance of counsel by counsel’s actions of (a) failing to procure a pre-trial hearing on probable cause and (b) failing to challenge the composition of the jury. ii

Docket Entries

2021-10-04
Petition DENIED.
2021-08-11
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/27/2021.
2021-06-03
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 26, 2021)

Attorneys

Willard Hall
Willard Hall — Petitioner
Willard Hall — Petitioner