No. 24-6328

Donald East v. Marty Jackley, Attorney General of South Dakota, et al.

Lower Court: Eighth Circuit
Docketed: 2025-01-16
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: actual-innocence criminal-conviction exculpatory-evidence guilty-plea habeas-relief ineffective-assistance
Key Terms:
HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2025-03-21
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a factual basis supporting a criminal conviction can be verifiably false and still result in a valid conviction; whether an attorney accepting a promised prosecutor job as compensation for convincing a client to plead guilty violates effective assistance of counsel; whether failure to investigate exculpatory facts invalidates a guilty plea; whether a medical condition proving impossibility of accusations demonstrates actual innocence warranting habeas relief; whether the Appellate Court erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability

Question Presented (from Petition)

(l-V) is deemed to comprise every subsidiary question fairly included therein. If and when the Petition is granted, due to the importance of the factual issues, East respectfully requests for oral arguments before this Honorable Court.III. IV. V.

Docket Entries

2025-03-24
Petition DENIED.
2025-03-06
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/21/2025.
2024-12-31
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due February 18, 2025)

Attorneys

Donald East
Donald East — Petitioner
Donald East — Petitioner