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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Tags Question Presented
24A274 Marcellus Williams v. Missouri, ex rel. Michael L. Parson, Governor of Missouri, et al. Missouri 2025-03-18 Denied actual-innocence capital-punishment clemency death-penalty eighth-amendment post-conviction-relief Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death row inmate who has presented substantial new evidence of actual innocence after his or…
24-5612 Prosecuting Attorney, 21st Judicial Circuit, ex rel. Marcellus Williams v. Missouri Missouri 2024-09-23 Denied capital-punishment constitutional-error due-process jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination Whether due process requires reversal when a prosecutor concedes constitutional errors in a capital conviction and no longer seeks to defend the case
24A290 Prosecuting Attorney, 21st Judicial Circuit, ex rel. Marcellus Williams v. Missouri Missouri 2024-09-23 Denied capital-crime death-penalty eighth-amendment execution-stay innocence-project new-evidence Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death row inmate who has presented new evidence potentially exculpating him from the underly…
24-5561 Marcellus Williams v. Missouri, ex rel. Michael L. Parson, Governor of Missouri, et al. Missouri 2024-09-18 Denied capital-punishment clemency-proceedings constitutional-rights due-process executive-discretion state-procedure Whether the State of Missouri will deprive Williams of his life without due process by executing him after initiating and then terminating a special c…
24A286 Marcellus S. Williams v. David Vandergriff, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied batson-violation equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strike prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination Whether the prosecutor's racially discriminatory peremptory strike of a Black juror during Mr. Williams' capital trial violated his constitutional rig…