No. 20-8205

In Re John L. McKenzie

Lower Court: N/A
Docketed: 2021-06-02
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Relisted (2)IFP
Tags: actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fabricated-evidence false-evidence habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice perjury prosecutorial-misconduct
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2021-11-05 (distributed 2 times)
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether Petitioner is illegally confined due to fabricated evidence and false testimony

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether Petitioner is illegally confined where confinement is due solely to the irrefutable fact that police fabricated the only evidence used to convict him, and the prosecutor presented false testimony at trial that resulted in conviction of an actually innocent person, creating a fundamental ’ miscarriage of justice in violation of the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution? 2. Whether the 11% Circuits denial of leave to file a numerically second § 2254 denied access to the court and due process because it endorses a fundamental miscarriage of justice by requiring an actually innocent person to remain in prison where conviction rests solely on the false evidence and perjured testimony? | | | | | | : | | | | | ,

Docket Entries

2021-11-08
Rehearing DENIED.
2021-10-20
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/5/2021.
2021-07-15
Petition for Rehearing filed.
2021-06-28
Petition DENIED.
2021-06-09
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/24/2021.
2021-04-13
Petition for writ of habeas corpus and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed.

Attorneys

In Re John L. McKenzie
John L. McKenzie — Petitioner