No. 24-695

Bill Cool, Warden v. Nathaniel Jackson

Lower Court: Sixth Circuit
Docketed: 2024-12-30
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Experienced Counsel
Tags: criminal-procedure death-penalty lockett-precedent mitigation-evidence remand sentencing-review
Key Terms:
HabeasCorpus Punishment
Latest Conference: 2025-02-28
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether state courts must reopen mitigation evidence in every death-penalty remand when the original error did not affect the defendant's opportunity to submit mitigating evidence

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

This Court’s precedent in Lockett , Eddings , and Skipper require that state courts admit and consider all relevant mitigating evidence that a death -eligible convict wants to present. And when the state courts fail to do so, this Court has remanded for them to fix the error. The question is: Has this Court clearly required state courts to reopen the mitigation eviden ce in every death -penalty remand, even if the error did not affect the defendant’s opportunity to submit mitigation evidence?

Docket Entries

2025-03-03
Motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed by respondent GRANTED.
2025-03-03
Petition DENIED.
2025-02-12
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/28/2025.
2025-02-12
Reply of Bill Cool, Warden submitted.
2025-02-12
2025-01-29
Brief of Nathaniel Jackson in opposition submitted.
2025-01-29
Motion of Nathaniel Jackson for leave to proceed in forma pauperis submitted.
2025-01-29
Motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed by respondent Nathaniel Jackson.
2025-01-29
Brief of respondent Nathaniel Jackson in opposition filed.
2024-12-04

Attorneys

Bill Cool, Warden
Thomas Elliot GaiserOffice of the Ohio Attorney General, Petitioner
Nathaniel Jackson
Paul Rudolph BotteiOffice of the Federal Public Defender, Respondent