No. 20-6564

Eric Bernard Scott v. Artis Singleton, Warden

Lower Court: Georgia
Docketed: 2020-12-08
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: civil-rights constitutional-rights court-proceedings due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-review standing state-law supreme-court-jurisdiction
Latest Conference: 2021-02-19
Question Presented (from Petition)

.DID GEORGIA SUPREME COURT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION BY FAILING TO RULE THE SUPERIOR COURT OF WILCOX COUNTY WAS WITHOUT SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION TO ENTERTAIN AN UNTIMELY MOTION TO DISMISS A HABEAS CORPUS PETITION?

.DID GEORGIA SUPREME COURT'S UNELABORATED ORDER RESTED ON ADEQUATE AND INDEPENDENT STATE LAW GROUNDS?

.DID GEORGIA SUPREME COURT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION BY FAILING TO RULE THAT THE PETITIONER DID NOT HAVE FILED HIS HABEAS PETITION BEFORE 50 DAYS AFTER SENTENCING AND PETITIONER WAS NEVER INFORMED OF THE PERIOD OF LIMITATION DURING SENTENCING.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Supreme Court abused its discretion by failing to rule that the Superior Court of Fulton County was without subject matter jurisdiction to entertain a habeas corpus petition

Docket Entries

2021-02-22
Petition DENIED.
2021-01-21
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/19/2021.
2020-11-11
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due January 7, 2021)

Attorneys

Eric Bernard Scott
Eric B. Scott — Petitioner