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Harry Brett Taylor v. Georgia

Paid petition · Supreme Court of Georgia, No. S17G0501 · judgment February 5, 2018

Certiorari denied · October 1, 2018
Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

I. When does lengthy solitary confinement of an accused coupled with significant pretrial delays violate an accused’s Fourteenth Amendment right to Due Process and Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial? II. Where a search warrant affidavit fails to make an express connection between the evidence sought and the address of the place to be searched, can a reviewing magistrate simply infer that such a connection exists?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Bernard S. Brody
Brody Law Firm

For respondent
Andrew Alan Pinson
Office of the Georgia Attorney General

Case

Subject area
Criminal Procedure (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Order
Order list, October 1, 2018 · Certiorari denied

Proceedings

  1. Oct 01 2018
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jun 13 2018
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/24/2018.
  3. Jun 04 2018
    Waiver of right of respondent Georgia to respond filed.
  4. May 07 2018
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 8, 2018)