No. 20-5795

Donald Mitchell Tedford v. Pennsylvania

Lower Court: Pennsylvania
Docketed: 2020-09-24
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: discoverable-information due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pennsylvania-law post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus Punishment
Latest Conference: 2021-03-26
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Post-Conviction Relief Act procedures of Pennsylvania law were applied to Petitioner in violation of his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to Due Process of Law

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

question presented in this case is: Whether the Post-Conviction Relief Act procedures of Pennsylvania law were applied to Petitioner in violation of his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to Due Process of Law when he was denied the opportunity to seek merits consideration of his claim that hundreds of pages of discoverable information were wrongly withheld from him solely on the basis of the per se ineffectiveness of his prior counsel? i

Docket Entries

2021-03-29
Petition DENIED. Justice Alito took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.
2021-03-11
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/26/2021.
2021-03-05
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including February 13, 2021.
2021-03-04
Motion to extend the time to file a response from February 12, 2021 to February 13, 2021, submitted to The Clerk.
2021-02-22
Reply of petitioner Donald Mitchell Tedford filed.
2021-02-13
Brief of respondent Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in opposition filed.
2021-02-09
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including February 12, 2021.
2021-02-08
Motion to extend the time to file a response from February 8, 2021 to February 12, 2021, submitted to The Clerk.
2021-01-26
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including February 8, 2021.
2021-01-25
Motion to extend the time to file a response from January 25, 2021 to February 8, 2021, submitted to The Clerk.
2020-12-09
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including January 25, 2021.
2020-12-08
Motion to extend the time to file a response from December 10, 2020 to January 25, 2021, submitted to The Clerk.
2020-11-12
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including December 10, 2020.
2020-10-27
Motion to extend the time to file a response from October 26, 2020 to December 10, 2020, submitted to The Clerk.
2020-09-16
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 26, 2020)

Attorneys

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
William Ross StoycosPennsylvania Office of Attorney General, Respondent
William Ross StoycosPennsylvania Office of Attorney General, Respondent
Donald Mitchell Tedford
Adam Byron CoganLaw Offices of Adam B. Cogan, Petitioner
Adam Byron CoganLaw Offices of Adam B. Cogan, Petitioner