No. 24-6375

In Re John E. Drummond

Lower Court: N/A
Docketed: 2025-01-23
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: article-iii constitutional-violation habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review writ-of-habeas-corpus
Key Terms:
AdministrativeLaw DueProcess HabeasCorpus JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2025-03-21
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether an Article III habeas court must grant relief when convinced a state court's judgment violates the Constitution despite AEDPA deference

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

If, after carefully weighing all the reasons for accepting a state court’s judgment, an Article III habeas court is convinced that a prisoner’s custody and death sentence violate the Constitution, and if, after an independently -rendered interpret ation of the state court adjudication , the Article III court finds it an erroneous structural Constitutional violation with no factual foundation to support the erroneous state court interpretation, must that Article III court interpret section 2254(d) (1) in a manner that avoids an unconstitutional infringement of the Article III court’s mandated powers and duties and grant relief? Alternatively, if, in adjudicating a capital case, an Article III court denies any remedy for a Constitutional claim it ha s independently adjudicated to be meritorious and with no factual basis in support such that the Article III court defers to that “clearly erroneous” interpretation of the Constitution in applying section 2254(d)(1) , does that “deference ” violate Article III and the Supremacy Clause , thereby effectively suspending the Writ ?

Docket Entries

2025-03-24
Petition DENIED.
2025-02-27
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/21/2025.
2025-02-05
Waiver of Bill Cool, Warden of right to respond submitted.
2025-02-05
Letter from counsel for respondent of Bill Cool, Warden submitted.
2025-02-05
Letter dated February 5, 2025, from counsel for respondent filed.
2025-01-02

Attorneys

Bill Cool, Warden
Thomas Elliot GaiserOffice of the Ohio Attorney General, Respondent
Thomas Elliot GaiserOffice of the Ohio Attorney General, Respondent
John E. Drummond
Alan Curtis RossmanOffice of the Federal Public Defender, ND OH, Petitioner
Alan Curtis RossmanOffice of the Federal Public Defender, ND OH, Petitioner