No. 20-5383

Dennis Marc Grigsby v. Dwight Neven, Warden, et al.

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2020-08-18
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: constitutional-amendments due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction post-conviction-writ procedural-due-process standard-of-review state-court-proceedings
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus Privacy
Latest Conference: 2020-10-16
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Did the state district court failure to certify its grant of motion for reconsideration affect the course of proceedings and factor into the Nevada Supreme Court affirmance of the post-conviction writ prior to the scheduled evidentiary hearing, violate procedural-due-process,equal-protection,5th-amendment,14th-amendment

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Did the state district court failure to certify its grant of motion for reconsideration affect the course of proceedings and factor into the Nevada Supreme Court affirmance of the post-conviction writ prior to the ; scheduled evidentiary hearing, violate "procedural due process and equal protection of law", as guaranteed by the 5th and 14th Amendments of the USS. Constitution? 2. Are federal habeas corpus determinations | . predicated upon a procedural error in state postconviction proceedings regarding other state court . judgments invalidated, where the "highly deferential standard of evaluation which demands that state-court decisions be given the benefit of the doubt", preclude the standard of habeas corpus review within the . meaning of 28 U.S.C. § 2254? i’ ; i

Docket Entries

2020-10-19
Petition DENIED.
2020-10-01
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/16/2020.
2020-09-10
Waiver of right of respondent Dwight W. Neven, Warden, et al. to respond filed.
2020-07-09
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 17, 2020)

Attorneys

Dennis Marc Grigsby
Dennis M. Grigsby — Petitioner
Dwight W. Neven, Warden, et al.
Jamie SlitzOffice of the Nevada Attorney General, Respondent