No. 21-5315

Rafael Arturo Coto Chinchilla v. Louisiana

Lower Court: Louisiana
Docketed: 2021-08-06
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: closing-arguments criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sufficiency-of-evidence trial-error
Key Terms:
SocialSecurity Securities Immigration
Latest Conference: 2021-09-27
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Was the evidence sufficient to support the guilty verdict?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. WAS THE EVIDENCE IN THE INSTANT CASE INSUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT A> Oo GUILTY VERDICT ON ALL THREE COUNTS OF THE BILL OF INFORMATION? . 2. DID THE TRIAL COURT ERR IN OVERRULLING THE OBJECTION DURING : 2 REBUTTAL CLOSING ARGUMENTS, WHEN THE PROSECUTOR : ; : MISCHARACTERIZED THE EMERGENCY ROOM DOCTOR’S TESTIMONY, . THUS MISLEADING THE JURY AND TAINTING THE OUTCOME OF THE TRIAL? .

Docket Entries

2021-10-04
Petition DENIED.
2021-09-09
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/27/2021.
2021-09-07
Waiver of right of respondent Louisiana to respond filed.
2021-07-10
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 7, 2021)

Attorneys

Louisiana
Shae Gary McPhee Jr.Louisiana Department of Justice, Respondent
Rafael Arturo Coto Chinchilla
Rafael Arturo Coto Chinchilla — Petitioner