No. 24-6144

Michael Roy Fuller v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections

Lower Court: Fourth Circuit
Docketed: 2024-12-13
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: constitutional-rights criminal-appeal habeas-corpus malice self-defense vehicle-shooting
Key Terms:
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Latest Conference: 2025-02-21
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether self-defense justifies shooting into a vehicle's dashboard when fearing for one's life and pleading to be released

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. When does self-defense become malice? 2. When one is in a car and afraid for his life, how is it malice to shoot into the dashboard as a last resort after pleading for several . minutes for the driver to stop and let him out? 3. How is this maliciously shooting into a vehicle? 4. lf the defense counselor does not bring this up in appeal and in a Habeas, how is this to have any bearing?

Docket Entries

2025-02-24
Petition DENIED.
2025-01-23
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/21/2025.
2024-09-27
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due January 13, 2025)

Attorneys

Michael Roy Fuller
Michael Roy Fuller — Petitioner