No. 20-5378

James Lynn Styers v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2020-08-17
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: capital-case certificate-of-appealability collateral-review eddings-standard eddings-v-oklahoma habeas-corpus mitigation-evidence ninth-circuit second-or-successive-petition
Key Terms:
DueProcess Punishment
Latest Conference: 2020-10-16
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Arizona Supreme Court is required to consider all available mitigation evidence during reweighing on collateral review to correct an Eddings error

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

question presented above was previously decided, and thus procedurally barred as a second or successive petition for writ of habeas corpus? ii

Docket Entries

2020-10-19
Petition DENIED.
2020-10-13
Reply of petitioner James Styers submitted.
2020-10-01
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/16/2020.
2020-09-16
Brief of respondent David Shinn in opposition filed.
2020-08-10
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 16, 2020)

Attorneys

David Shinn
Ginger JarvisAttorney General's Office, Respondent
Ginger JarvisAttorney General's Office, Respondent
James Styers
Julie Singleton Hall — Petitioner
Julie Singleton Hall — Petitioner