No. 25-5932

Garland Ray Gregory, Jr. v. South Dakota

Lower Court: South Dakota
Docketed: 2025-10-22
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: choice-of-counsel coram-nobis equal-protection fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment structural-error
Latest Conference: 2026-01-09
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Is a Sixth Amendment 'erroneous deprivation of choice of counsel ' structural error, an
error of the most fundamental character, properly before the court as a coram nobis claim?

2. Does the South Dakota court 's holdings not recognizing petitioner 's Sixth Amendment
'erroneous deprivation of counsel of choice ' structural error claim, as a valid coram nobis claim,
violate his Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection of the Law right?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Is a Sixth Amendment 'erroneous deprivation of choice of counsel' structural error properly before the court as a coram nobis claim, and does the South Dakota court's holdings violate the petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection rights?

Docket Entries

2026-01-12
Petition DENIED.
2025-12-04
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/9/2026.
2025-10-10
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due November 21, 2025)

Attorneys

Garland R. Gregory, Jr.
Garland Ray Gregory Jr. — Petitioner