No. 25-6186

Rashawn Lesley Grant v. North Carolina

Lower Court: North Carolina
Docketed: 2025-11-20
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process evidence-sufficiency eyewitness-testimony trial-record
Key Terms:
DueProcess FifthAmendment
Latest Conference: 2026-01-09
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the State of North Carolina's conviction of Petitioner Grant for murder and the resulting life sentence violated the Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution where the trial record lacked evidence of guilt and the only eyewitness testimony exonerated the defendant

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

Whether the State of North Carolina ’s conviction of Petitioner Grant for murder and the resulting life sentence violated the Due Process C lause of the United States Constitution where (a) the trial record was utterly devoid of any evidence of guilt save for the p resence of Grant ’s cell phone at the site of a chaotic shootout involving many individual s, and (b) the only eyewitness testimony from the scene of the shooting exonerated Grant?

Docket Entries

2026-01-12
Petition DENIED.
2025-12-04
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/9/2026.
2025-12-02
Waiver of State of North Carolina of right to respond submitted.
2025-12-02
Waiver of right of respondent State of North Carolina to respond filed.
2025-11-18
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 22, 2025)

Attorneys

Rashawn Lesley Grant
Sharon L. SmithSharon L. Smith Law Office, P.A., Petitioner
Sharon L. SmithSharon L. Smith Law Office, P.A., Petitioner
State of North Carolina
Sherri Horner LawrenceNorth Carolina Department of Justice, Respondent
Sherri Horner LawrenceNorth Carolina Department of Justice, Respondent