No. 24A411

Donald Sherman v. William Gittere, Warden, et al.

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2024-10-28
Status: Presumed Complete
Type: A
Tags: capital-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit writ-of-certiorari
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus Punishment
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a capital defendant whose underlying conviction or sentence may have been tainted by ineffective assistance of counsel

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

No question identified. : 1 No. _ In the Supreme Court of the United States Donald Sherman Petitioner, v. William Gittere , et al., Respondents. Petition er’s Application to Extend Time to File Petition for Writ of Certiorari CAPITAL CASE To the Honorable Elena Kagan , as Circuit Justice for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit: Petitioner Donald Sherman respectfully requests that the time to file a Petition for Writ of Certiorari in this matter be extended for sixty (60) days, to and including January 3, 2024. The published order of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirming the denial of habeas relief in Case No. 16 -99000 was issued on February 9, 2024, and is attached as

Docket Entries

2024-10-29
Application (24A411) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until January 2, 2025.
2024-10-23
Application (24A411) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from November 3, 2024 to January 2, 2025, submitted to Justice Kagan.

Attorneys

Donald Sherman
David Severen AnthonyFederal Public Defender's Office, Petitioner