No. 21-8279

Randy William Gay v. Arkansas

Lower Court: Arkansas
Docketed: 2022-06-29
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: capital-defendant capital-punishment effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-jury fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire
Key Terms:
DueProcess Punishment HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2022-09-28
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a capital defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments rights to a fair and impartial jury and to the effective assistance of counsel are violated by the preclusion of, and trial counsel's failure to ask, case-specific mitigation questions during voir dire

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED FOR REVIEW 1. Whether a capital defendant’s Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments rights to a fair and impartial jury and to the effective assistance of counsel are violated by the preclusion of, and trial counsel’s failure to ask, case-specific mitigation questions during voir dire. 2. Whether a capital defendant’s Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights are violated by allowing two jurors to sit who stated they would not consider intoxication a mitigating circumstance and whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to move to disqualify the impaired jurors. i LIST OF DIRECTLY

Docket Entries

2022-10-03
Petition DENIED.
2022-09-08
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2022.
2022-08-19
Brief of respondent Arkansas in opposition filed.
2022-07-14
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including August 19, 2022.
2022-07-13
Motion to extend the time to file a response from July 29, 2022 to August 19, 2022, submitted to The Clerk.
2022-06-27
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due July 29, 2022)

Attorneys

Randy William Gay
Joseph Blake Hendrix Jr.Fuqua Campbell, P.A., Petitioner
State of Arkansas
Nicholas Jacob BronniSolicitor General of Arkansas, Respondent