No. 24-5538

John Ross Stenberg v. Don Langford, Warden

Lower Court: Tenth Circuit
Docketed: 2024-09-12
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-counsel self-incrimination
Key Terms:
DueProcess CriminalProcedure HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2024-10-11
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the District Court erred in denying suppression of statements and finding ineffective assistance of counsel claims without merit when constitutional rights may have been violated

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED ~ ‘ 1. Did the United States District Court for the District of Kansas err when it failed to find in Mr. ; . Stenberg's favor regarding the suppression issue of his written and oral statements to Law Enforcement when Law Enforcement overbore Mr. Stenberg's will by misrepresenting the law and the evidence against him, using implied promises and implicit threats, and using the trust Mr. ; Stenberg had in the Law Enforcement officer conducting the interview, against him in order to coerce an involuntary, false confession from Mr. Stenberg, thus violating Mr. Stenberg's Fifth and Fourteenth U.S Constitutional Amendment Rights. : 2. Did the United Stattes District Court for the District_of Kansas err when it found Mr. . Stenberg was effectively represented by his trial counsel even though trial counsel provided ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to contact potential defense witnesses, failing to : consult an expert witness, failing to perform any form of investigation of the alleged crimes, failing to perform certain functions, failing to prepare Mr. Stenberg to testify on his own behalf, failing to have any viable form of trial strategy or defense, and failing to put the state to adversarial testing, thus violating Mr. Stenberg's Sixth and Fourteenth U.S Constitutional Amendment Rights. x . aN ;

Docket Entries

2024-10-15
Petition DENIED.
2024-09-19
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/11/2024.
2024-09-16
Waiver of right of respondent Don Langford to respond filed.
2024-09-02
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 15, 2024)
2024-06-20
Application (23A1125) granted by Justice Gorsuch extending the time to file until September 2, 2024.
2024-06-07
Application (23A1125) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from July 3, 2024 to September 1, 2024, submitted to Justice Gorsuch.

Attorneys

Don Langford
Anthony John PowellOffice of the Kansas Attorney General, Respondent
John Stenberg
John Stenberg — Petitioner