No. 23-7298

Jonathan Wayne Daniels v. United States

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: 2024-04-24
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process eyewitness-identification hobbs-act-robbery jury-instruction jury-instructions suggestive-identification suggestive-procedure third-circuit
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2024-05-23
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether petitioner's jury was adequately 'warn[ed] to take care in appraising identification evidence,' in accordance with due process, where his jury was not instructed that a suggestive identification procedure may undermine an eyewitness identification

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED FOR REVIEW At petitioner’s Hobbs Act robberies trial, petitioner was identified as a robbery suspect by an eyewitness who had been subjected by police to a suggestive identification procedure. Petitioner requested the Third Circuit Court of Appeals’ pattern eyewitness identification instruction, which—unlike the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals’ pattern identification suggestiveness. Instead, the district court read the Eleventh Circuit’s pattern instruction, which provides only that the jury “may [] consider the circumstances of the identification of the Defendant, such as the way the Defendant was presented to the witness for identification.” The question presented for review is: Whether petitioner’s jury was adequately “warn[ed] to take care in appraising identification evidence,” in accordance with due process, where his jury was not instructed that a suggestive identification procedure may undermine an eyewitness identification. See Perry v. New Hampshire, 565 U.S. 228, 245-46 (2012). i INTERESTED PARTIES There are no

Docket Entries

2024-05-28
Petition DENIED.
2024-05-08
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/23/2024.
2024-05-01
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2024-04-22
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due May 24, 2024)

Attorneys

Jonathan Daniels
Sara Wilson KaneFederal Public Defender's Office, Petitioner
Sara Wilson KaneFederal Public Defender's Office, Petitioner
United States
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent