No. 21-7132

Dominique C. Swopes v. Ohio

Lower Court: Ohio
Docketed: 2022-02-16
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: capital-case discovery-order due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment interlocutory-appeal scientific-evidence state-created-right trial-court-discretion
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus Privacy
Latest Conference: 2022-04-22
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a defendant in a capital case has a Fourteenth Amendment due process right to take an interlocutory appeal of a trial court's discovery order that will result in the total consumption of the evidence and preclude any testing by the defendant, particularly when there is a state-created right to take an interlocutory appeal from pretrial orders that finally determine a matter ancillary to the trial

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED When a trial court's discovery order regarding scientific testing of evidence will result in the total consumption of the evidence and thus preclude any testing by a defendant in a capital case, does Fourteenth Amendment due process guarantee a defendant the right to take an interlocutory appeal of that decision, particularly when there is a state-created right to take an interlocutory appeal from pretrial orders that finally determine a matter that is ancillary to the action on trial and from which there is no meaningful post-trial appeal? ii

Docket Entries

2022-04-25
Petition DENIED.
2022-04-07
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/22/2022.
2022-03-18
Brief of respondent Ohio in opposition filed.
2022-02-11
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 18, 2022)
2021-12-21
Application (21A261) granted by Justice Kavanaugh extending the time to file until February 11, 2022.
2021-12-10
Application (21A261) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from December 13, 2021 to February 11, 2022, submitted to Justice Kavanaugh.

Attorneys

Dominique C. Swopes
Erika Bloomfield CunliffeCouyahoga County Public Defender's Office, Petitioner
Ohio
Daniel Tuyen VanCuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office, Respondent