No. 22-5431

Davante Turner v. United States

Lower Court: Sixth Circuit
Docketed: 2022-08-23
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: constitutional-protections courtroom-closure due-process fair-trial government-agent public-trial sixth-amendment structural-error
Latest Conference: 2022-10-07
Question Presented (from Petition)

(1) Whether it is structural error and a violation of Petitioner's constitutional protections to a fair and public trial under the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution mandating reversal for the Government's agent to unilaterally close a courtroom to members of the public, without the prior knowledge and order of the trial court, when the Government's agent removed members of Petitioner's family and prevented them from returning to the courtroom during certain trial testimony?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether it is structural error and a violation of Petitioner's constitutional protections to a fair and public trial under the Sixth Amendment

Docket Entries

2022-10-11
Petition DENIED.
2022-09-15
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/7/2022.
2022-09-07
Waiver of right of respondent United States of America to respond filed.
2022-08-17
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 22, 2022)

Attorneys

Davante Turner
Andre Courtney WhartonThe Wharton Law Firm, Petitioner
United States of America
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent