No. 23-5700

Paul Gray v. Louisiana

Lower Court: Louisiana
Docketed: 2023-10-03
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-economy montgomery-v-louisiana nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2023-11-09
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does the State of Louisiana have the right to invoke 'judicial economy' as a ruse for violations of constitutional guarantees?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED 1. Does the State of Louisiana have the express right to invoke the defense of “judicial economy” as a ruse for plausible deniability; especially when the State of Louisiana engineered the action which resulted in the Substantial and direct violations of the United States Constitutional guarantees? 2. Does this Court’s holding in Montgomery v. Louisiana, No. 14-280, 136 S.Ct. 718 (01/27/2016) a reasoned judgment controls subsequent cases in a similar posture? 3. Is an unconstitutional criminal procedure the same as an unconstitutional statutory provision being an absolute nullity under this Court’s holding in Montgomery v. Louisiana, No. 14-280, 136 S.Ct. 718 (01/27/2016)? 4. Does the Louisiana Supreme Court’s judgment in State v. Reddick, 202101893 (La. 10/21/22), _— So. 3d on February 7, 2023 circumvent the Constitutional protections that are deeply engrained within the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution? 5. When a trial court — as in Petitioner’s case -direct a jury to reach a nonunanimous verdict violate the peremptory safeguards of the Sixth Amendment right to a trial by jury and violate the peremptory safeguards of the Fourteenth Amendment right to the equal protection of the law? i

Docket Entries

2023-11-13
Petition DENIED.
2023-10-25
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/9/2023.
2023-10-20
Waiver of right of respondent Louisiana to respond filed.
2023-07-13
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due November 2, 2023)

Attorneys

Louisiana
Charles J. BallayDistrict Attorney's Office, 25th Judicial District, Respondent
Charles J. BallayDistrict Attorney's Office, 25th Judicial District, Respondent
Paul Gray
Paul Gray — Petitioner
Paul Gray — Petitioner