No. 20-986

Michael Gregory Hubbard v. Alabama

Lower Court: Alabama
Docketed: 2021-01-25
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: criminal-law criminal-statutes due-process fair-notice first-impression-law legal-interpretation official-actions official-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-theory statutory-interpretation
Key Terms:
DueProcess Patent
Latest Conference: 2021-02-19
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Did the Supreme Court of Alabama deprive Petitioner of due process of law?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

Question Presented Did the Supreme Court of Alabama deprive Petitioner of due process of law, when it affirmed his conviction based on (a) first-impression interpretations of criminal statutes that a reasonable person would not have known to be the law, and (b) a factual theory (that Petitioner took certain official actions in exchange for payment) that the prosecutors had declared at trial to be irrelevant to their case? i

Docket Entries

2021-02-22
Petition DENIED.
2021-02-03
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/19/2021.
2021-01-28
Waiver of right of respondent State of Alabama to respond filed.
2021-01-13
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 24, 2021)

Attorneys

Michael Gregory Hubbard
Samuel H. HeldmanThe Gardner Firm, PC, Petitioner
State of Alabama
Edmund Gerard LaCour Jr.Office of the Attorney General, Respondent