No. 20-5722

Stanley J. Carter v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction

Lower Court: Eighth Circuit
Docketed: 2020-09-16
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: 14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest speedy-trial state-law
Key Terms:
DueProcess FourthAmendment HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2020-11-06
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does a Criminal defendant have a Fourteenth Amendment Constitutional Protection against the arbitrary deprivation by a state of one's State created liberty interest in State Statutory laws related to procedures regarding a Speedy Trial?

Question Presented (from Petition)

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED 1. Does a Criminal defendant have ‘a Fourteenth Amendment Constitutional Protection against the arbitrary deprivation by a state of one’s State created liberty interest in State Statutory ; laws related to procedures regarding a Speedy Trial? 2... Under this Court’s reasoning inPa vs. Davis, 424 U.S. 693, 110-711 (1976) , is there . . any doubt that State law may confer rights and privileges which, once granted, may not be denied or withheld without violating due process? 3. Pursuant to this Court’s holding:in Klopter ys. North Carolina, 386 U.S. 213, 87 S. Ct. ; ‘988 (1967) and Smith vs. Hooey, 393 US. 374 (1969), does the Fourteenth Amendment to the ; a U.S. Constitution — made applicable to the States via Sixth Amendment — guarantee the right to a Speedy Trial pursuant to a Stat’s Criminal Trial Procedures outlining Speedy Trial directives. . | ~~ ; | { Poa f || '

Docket Entries

2020-11-09
Petition DENIED.
2020-10-22
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/6/2020.
2020-10-15
Waiver of right of respondent Wendy Kelley to respond filed.
2020-06-19
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 16, 2020)

Attorneys

Stanley J. Carter
Stanley J. Carter — Petitioner
Stanley J. Carter — Petitioner
Wendy Kelley
Michael Anthony CantrellOffice of the Arkansas Attorney General, Respondent
Michael Anthony CantrellOffice of the Arkansas Attorney General, Respondent