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Gregory Scott Ross v. Kentucky
Paid petition · Court of Appeals of Kentucky, No. 2015-CA-001332-MR · judgment July 28, 2017
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
Whether a defendant that enters a plea of guilty pursuant to North Carolina v. Alford, 400 U.S. 25 (1970) and is sentenced to a pretrial diversion program is permitted to withdraw that plea under postconviction remedies available to the accused pursuant to §11.42 of the Kentucky Rules of Criminal Procedure and Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984).
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Robert L. Sirianni Jr.
Brownstone, P.A.
For respondent
Thomas Allen Van De Rostyne
Office of the Kentucky Attorney General
Proceedings
- Oct 01 2018Petition DENIED.
- Jun 20 2018DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/24/2018.
- May 04 2018Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 8, 2018)
- Feb 22 2018Application (17A895) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until May 6, 2018.
- Feb 13 2018Application (17A895) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from March 7, 2018 to May 6, 2018, submitted to Justice Kagan.