No. 21-6275

David Wayne Dooley v. Kentucky

Lower Court: Kentucky
Docketed: 2021-11-16
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: arizona-v-youngblood burden-of-proof civil-procedure confrontation-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-spoliation separation-of-witnesses state-action
Key Terms:
DueProcess Privacy
Latest Conference: 2022-01-07
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Is Due Process violated when a criminal defendant must bear the burden of showing bad faith in order to be entitled to a missing evidence instruction, following Arizona v. Youngblood, 488 U.S. 51 (1988), where a similarly situated civil movant would not?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Is Due Process violated when a criminal defendant must bear the burden of showing bad faith in order to be entitled to a missing evidence instruction, following Arizona v. Youngblood, 488 U.S. 51 (1988), where a similarly situated civil movant would not? 2. Is Due Process violated when willful state action or collusion results in a violation of the doctrine of separation of witnesses and curtails the defendant's right to effective confrontation and fundamental fairness? ii

Docket Entries

2022-01-10
Petition DENIED.
2021-12-02
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/7/2022.
2021-11-29
Waiver of right of respondent Kentucky to respond filed.
2021-11-10
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 16, 2021)

Attorneys

David Wayne Dooley
Erin Hoffman YangDepartment of Public Advocacy, Petitioner
Kentucky
Todd Dryden FergusonOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent