No. 23-6960

Tasha Mercedez Shelby v. Mississippi

Lower Court: Mississippi
Docketed: 2024-03-11
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP Experienced Counsel
Tags: 14th-amendment cause-of-death death-certificate due-process fourteenth-amendment homicide-conviction medical-examiner recantation resentencing shaken-baby-syndrome
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2024-06-13 (distributed 2 times)
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does the Due Process Clause require resentencing when the principal evidence supporting a conviction is later recanted?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED May a State, consistent with the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, refuse to resentence petitioner, who was sentenced to life in prison for a murder based on the Shaken Baby Syndrome theory, when the official medical examiner, who signed the death certificate that was the principal evidence supporting her conviction, has signed a new certificate stating that the cause of death was an accident, not homicide? i

Docket Entries

2024-06-17
Petition DENIED.
2024-05-29
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/13/2024.
2024-05-20
Reply of petitioner Tasha Mercedez Shelby filed.
2024-05-13
Brief of respondent Mississippi in opposition filed.
2024-04-24
Brief amici curiae of Southern Center for Human Rights, et al. filed.
2024-04-03
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including May 29, 2024.
2024-04-02
Motion to extend the time to file a response from April 29, 2024 to May 29, 2024, submitted to The Clerk.
2024-03-28
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/12/2024.
2024-03-28
Response Requested. (Due April 29, 2024)
2024-03-22
Waiver of right of respondent Mississippi to respond filed.
2024-03-07
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 10, 2024)
2024-01-22
Application (23A674) granted by Justice Alito extending the time to file until March 29, 2024.
2024-01-16
Application (23A674) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from January 30, 2024 to March 29, 2024, submitted to Justice Alito.

Attorneys

Mississippi
Ashley Lauren SulserOffice of the Mississippi Attorney General, Respondent
Ashley Lauren SulserOffice of the Mississippi Attorney General, Respondent
Southern Center for Human Rights and the Center for Integrity in Forensic Science
Andrew Philip StannerCovington & Burling LLP, Amicus
Andrew Philip StannerCovington & Burling LLP, Amicus
Tasha Mercedez Shelby
Alan B. MorrisonGeorge Washington Law School, Petitioner
Alan B. MorrisonGeorge Washington Law School, Petitioner
Valena Elizabeth BeetyAttorney at Law, Petitioner
Valena Elizabeth BeetyAttorney at Law, Petitioner