No. 24-7487
Nicholas Noelani D. Smith v. Alabama
IFP
Tags: capital-murder due-process fourteenth-amendment lesser-included-offenses specific-intent voluntary-intoxication
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Latest Conference:
2025-09-29
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether a criminal defendant in a capital trial is deprived of his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process when the evidence supports voluntary intoxication negating specific intent, but the trial court fails to instruct the jury on lesser-included offenses
Question Presented (OCR Extract)
Whether a criminal defendant in a capital trial is deprived of his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process, as set forth in Beck v. Alabama, when the evidence at trial would support a finding of voluntary intoxication negating specific intent as an element of capital murder, but the trial court fails to instruct the jury to consider any lesser-included offenses to capital murder. i
Docket Entries
2025-10-06
Petition DENIED.
2025-08-14
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2025.
2025-07-24
Brief of State of Alabama in opposition submitted.
2025-07-24
Brief of respondent Alabama in opposition filed.
2025-06-20
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due July 24, 2025)
2025-05-15
Application (24A1094) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until June 21, 2025.
2025-05-12
Application (24A1094) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from May 22, 2025 to June 23, 2025, submitted to Justice Thomas.
Attorneys
Nicholas Smith
Angela Leigh Setzer — Petitioner
State of Alabama
Edmund Gerard LaCour Jr. — Office of the Attorney General, Respondent