No. 24A290

Prosecuting Attorney, 21st Judicial Circuit, ex rel. Marcellus Williams v. Missouri

Lower Court: Missouri
Docketed: 2024-09-23
Status: Denied
Type: A
Amici (1)
Tags: capital-crime death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay innocence-project new-evidence
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death row inmate who has presented new evidence potentially exculpating him from the underlying capital crime

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

No question identified. : ii

Docket Entries

2024-09-24
Application (24A290) referred to the Court.
2024-09-24
Application (24A290) for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice Kavanaugh and by him referred to the Court is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied. Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson would grant the application for stay of execution of sentence of death.
2024-09-24
Amicus brief of NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc submitted.
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2024-09-24
Brief amicus curiae of NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. filed.
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2024-09-23
Application (24A290) for a stay of execution of sentence of death, submitted to Justice Kavanaugh.
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Attorneys

Marcellus Williams
Tricia J. Bushnell — Midwest Innocence Project, Petitioner
Tricia J. Bushnell — Midwest Innocence Project, Petitioner
NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc
Samuel Spital — NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc, Amicus
Samuel Spital — NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc, Amicus