Austin Myers v. Ohio
DueProcess Punishment HabeasCorpus JusticiabilityDoctri
Whether the Ohio state courts deny a death-sentenced postconviction petitioner's rights to due process, access to the Ohio courts, and an adequate corrective process
QUESTIONS PRESENTED CAPITAL CASE: NO CURRENT EXECUTION DATE I. Do the Ohio state courts deny a death-sentenced postconviction petitioner’s rights to due process, access to the Ohio courts, and an adequate corrective process when those courts enforce an unreasonable and definition of “good cause” and fail to allow petitioner to conduct necessary discovery on the vast majority of his grounds for relief—including on all grounds challenging the deficient performance of his trial counsel in the guilt-innocence phase of his capital trial—before summarily dismissing those grounds without a hearing? IL. Is the infliction of the death penalty on a person who was nineteen years old at the time of the offense, and was not the actual killer of the single victim of the subject crime, cruel and unusual punishment, and thus barred by the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments? i