No. 22-6160

Wayland Lynn Dilts v. Mike Brown, Warden

Lower Court: Sixth Circuit
Docketed: 2022-11-29
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: aedpa aedpa-standard constitutional-violation courtroom-closure due-process public-trial public-trial-right sixth-amendment sixth-circuit weaver-v-massachusetts witness-testimony
Key Terms:
HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2023-01-06
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit improperly applied Weaver v. Massachusetts and AEDPA, and whether the Michigan trial court violated the Sixth Amendment public-trial right when it closed the courtroom to the public during the testimony of five prosecution witnesses without adequate justification

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

question presented here is: 1) whether the Court of Appeals for the “Sixth Circuit improperly applied both Weaver v. Massachusetts, 137 $.Ct. 1899 (2017) and AEDPA, and 2) whether the Michigan trial court violated the Sixth Amendment public-trial right when it closed the courtroom to the public during the testimony of five prosecution witnesses without adequate justification. ee

Docket Entries

2023-01-09
Petition DENIED.
2022-12-22
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/6/2023.
2022-12-19
Waiver of right of respondent Mike Brown, Warden to respond filed.
2022-10-06
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 29, 2022)

Attorneys

Mike Brown, Warden
Fadwa A. HammoudMichigan Department of Attorney General, Respondent
Fadwa A. HammoudMichigan Department of Attorney General, Respondent
Wayland Dilts
Wayland Lynn Dilts — Petitioner
Wayland Lynn Dilts — Petitioner