capital-offense

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
21-7235 Wesley S. Ricks v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-offense capital-offenses criminal-procedure due-process joinder-of-offenses non-capital-offenses procedural-safeguards state-constitution trial-rights Whether Capital and NonCapital Offenses may be Joinder of Offenses for Trial?
21-6512 Jason Kiger v. Tim Hooper, Warden Louisiana 2021-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-offense constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process jury-trial legislative-amendment legislative-power sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation unanimous-verdict Can Louisiana's 1997 and 1998 legislative amendments to La. 14:42 (C) and (D) qualify, absent a constitutional amendment, as the attendant provision n…
18-5865 Gary L. Pennington v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Pennsylvania 2018-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-offense constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder fourteenth-amendment state-law substantive-due-process Whether petitioner's conviction of first degree murder violated the constitutionally protected state-created liberty interest guaranteed under the Fou…