No. 20-7623

Michael Eric Drake v. Pennsylvania

Lower Court: Pennsylvania
Docketed: 2021-03-31
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-bad-acts sixth-amendment trial-counsel
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Latest Conference: 2021-05-13
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Did the Pennsylvania Superior Court ignore the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments when it found no issue with trial counsel's failure to protect his client from false prior bad acts information and no steps were ever taken to cure the issue by the trial court?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

Question Presented Did the Pennsylvania Superior Court ignore the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments when it found no issue with trial counsel’s failure to protect his client from false prior bad acts information and no steps were ever taken to cure the issue by the trial court? i

Docket Entries

2021-05-17
Petition DENIED.
2021-04-28
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/13/2021.
2021-04-22
Waiver of right of respondent Pennsylvania to respond filed.
2021-03-16
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 30, 2021)

Attorneys

Michael Eric Drake
Michael Eric Drake — Petitioner
Pennsylvania
Nancy WinkelmanDistrict Attorney's Office, Respondent