No. 20-232

Robert Anderson v. Teri Kennedy

Lower Court: Seventh Circuit
Docketed: 2020-08-27
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Amici (1)Response Waived
Tags: constitutional-rights due-process evidence-exclusion expert-testimony eyewitness-identification holmes-precedent holmes-v-south-carolina state-rule
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus Privacy
Latest Conference: 2020-10-09
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether this Court's decision in Holmes v. South Carolina, 547 U.S. 319 (2006, clearly establishes that a defendant's due process right to present evidence is violated by a state rule which arbitrarily excludes expert testimony on eyewitness identification merely because there is evidence of defendant's guilt apart from the eyewitness identification

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED FOR REVIEW Whether this Court’s decision in Holmes v. South Carolina, 547 U.S. 319 (2006, clearly establishes that a defendant’s due process right to present evidence is violated by a state rule which arbitrarily excludes expert testimony on eyewitness identification merely because there is evidence of defendant’s guilt apart from the eyewitness identification.

Docket Entries

2020-10-13
Petition DENIED.
2020-09-28
Brief amicus curiae of The Illinois Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers filed. (Distributed)
2020-09-16
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/9/2020.
2020-09-09
Waiver of right of respondent Teri Kennedy to respond filed.
2020-08-17
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 28, 2020)

Attorneys

Robert Anderson
Stephen Louis RichardsLaw Office of Stephen L. Richards, Petitioner
Stephen Louis RichardsLaw Office of Stephen L. Richards, Petitioner
Teri Kennedy
Michael Marc Glick — Respondent
Michael Marc Glick — Respondent
The Illinois Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
William Peter WolfThe Law Office of William Wolf, LLC, Amicus
William Peter WolfThe Law Office of William Wolf, LLC, Amicus