Jason Robert Vickers v. Kenneth Diggs, Warden
Environmental SocialSecurity Securities Immigration
Whether a criminal defendant can challenge an indictment and/or conviction after a coerced guilty plea
QUESTION(S) PRESENTED i. Police Reports are often embellished in order to charge and/or indict a person wi +, a harshecrime, Lf a Criminal defendant 1s indicted On a pacticulac offense, but the elements of that crime and the evidence do not suport that offense, Can a defendant challerge He indictment . and/or Conviction after a Coerced guilty pea! , 8, Many snmocent peeple are essentially blackmailed. int pleading guilty to crimes . they did not comait, Tf a erimial defendant pleads guilty to a Felony does it preclude him or her from presentag new evidence Cxonerachig Hem of the crime and are they entiHed to an evidentiary heacing on te matter? 3, The systemic destuction of potentially exculpatory evidence after a Crimiaal defendants Conviction Continves to be a due prowess Violation for many tanocent prisoners. DNA testing 15 Conclusive and when a State has a Clear Statytory duty +o preserve physical evidene atte a Conviction end it impunitively destroys Hat evidence, does Hat constiivte bad faith and if it does what is He remedy? 4. The Rublic Defenders Of Gice Is routinely appointed to represent indigent Criminal defendants and 1s often overwhelmed with cheats, Does *t Canstihte imetbective assistance of Comsel when & defendant Is Coveted into pleading quill when, had counsel produced @ proper defense at trial a different ovtcome would (kely have Occurred? .