No. 21-1424

Marjana Hoti v. City of Warren, Michigan

Lower Court: Michigan
Docketed: 2022-05-05
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response WaivedRelisted (3)
Tags: due-process external-influence fair-trial judicial-ethics jury-misconduct jury-tampering prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-procedure
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2022-11-18 (distributed 3 times)
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Is it an external influence on the jury when the prosecutor and one of the sitting jurors had prior secret contacts before the trial starts?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

question presented for review is: Is it an external influence‘on the jury when the prosecutor and one of the sitting jurors had prior. secret contacts before the trial starts? 2. On 12/13/2017 I was convicted by the jury on the ‘ charge of the “Disturbing of the Peace”. The city of Warren ordinance of the disturbing of the peace states the following. “No person shall make, aid, give countenance to or assist in making any improper noise, disturbance, breach of the peace, or diversion tending to a breach of the peace, in any place within the city.” The question presented for review is: . Is it “No person shall make, aid, give countenance to or assist in making any improper noise” even if : : nobody was disturbed is it a crime? 1 ad ! | | 3. When the police arrested me and my husband on 12/05/2012 there was no disturbance of the peace at all and nobody complained about the disturbance of the peace. | The question presented for review is: | Is an arrest made for disturbing the peace lawful if there is no disturbance of the peace at all? , 2 | | | ii | LIST OF DIRECTLY

Docket Entries

2022-11-21
Rehearing DENIED.
2022-11-02
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/18/2022.
2022-10-22
2022-10-03
Petition DENIED.
2022-06-29
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2022.
2022-06-27
Motion Granted.
2022-06-07
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/23/2022.
2022-06-01
Response to motion from petitioner Marjana Hoti filed.
2022-05-26
Motion of respondent for leave to file the petition for a writ of certiorari with a supplemental appendix under seal with redacted copies for the public record filed.
2022-05-26
Waiver of right of respondent City of Warren to respond filed.
2022-02-25
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 6, 2022)

Attorneys

City of Warren
Caitlin MurphyWarren City Attorney's Office, Respondent
Marjana Hoti
Marjana Hoti — Petitioner