No. 20-292

John Pinder v. Scott Crowther, Warden

Lower Court: Tenth Circuit
Docketed: 2020-09-04
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: constitutional-rights conviction criminal-conviction due-process false-testimony federal-courts judicial-review prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct state-courts
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2020-09-29
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether Due Process is violated when a prosecutor relies on false testimony to secure a conviction but did not know that the testimony was false until after trial

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED The question presented, which has divided federal courts of appeals and state high courts, and on which petition for certiorari is pending before this Court in Farrar v. Williams, No. 19-953 is: Whether Due Process is violated when a prosecutor relies on false testimony to secure a conviction but did not know that the testimony was false until after trial, as six courts have held, or whether Due Process is violated only where the prosecutor knows the testimony is false at the time of trial, as eight courts have held.

Docket Entries

2020-10-05
Petition DENIED.
2020-09-09
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2020.
2020-09-04
Waiver of right of respondent Scott Crowther to respond filed.
2020-09-01
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 5, 2020)

Attorneys

Pinder John
Andrew Henry ParnesLaw Office of Andrew Parnes, Petitioner
Andrew Henry ParnesLaw Office of Andrew Parnes, Petitioner
Scott Crowther
Aaron Gregory MurphyUtah Attorney General, Respondent
Aaron Gregory MurphyUtah Attorney General, Respondent