No. 23-7665

Kenneth Oteng Duodu v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections

Lower Court: Fourth Circuit
Docketed: 2024-06-07
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Relisted (2)IFP
Tags: article-vi confrontation-clause constitutional-rights consular-notification criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus international-obligations vienna-convention
Latest Conference: 2025-01-10 (distributed 2 times)
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the failure of the Fairfax County Police Department to notify the Consulate of Ghana in contravention of the petitioner's established consular notification rights under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations and the U.S. Constitution violates the petitioner's due process rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

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Docket Entries

2025-01-13
Rehearing DENIED.
2024-12-18
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/10/2025.
2024-10-21
Petition for Rehearing filed.
2024-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2024-07-18
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/30/2024.
2024-04-25
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due July 8, 2024)

Attorneys

Kenneth O. Duodu
Kenneth Oteng Duodu — Petitioner
Kenneth Oteng Duodu — Petitioner