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Ronald N. Cooke v. Virginia

Paid petition · Supreme Court of Virginia, No. 160650 · judgment August 23, 2017

Certiorari denied · January 8, 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

A. Does the right to a grand jury indictment conferred by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution apply to state indictments via the Fourteenth Amendment? B. Does a defective grand jury indictment in a state court criminal case deprive the state court of jurisdiction in such a case? i PETITION FOR CERTIORARI

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Dale Reese Jensen
Dale Jensen, PLC

For respondent
Matthew Robert McGuire
Office of the Attorney General

Case

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

Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences

Orders
Order list, January 8, 2018 · Certiorari denied
Order list, March 19, 2018 · Rehearing denied

Proceedings

Mar 19 2018
Rehearing DENIED.
Feb 28 2018
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/16/2018.
Feb 02 2018
Petition for Rehearing filed.
Jan 08 2018
Petition DENIED.
Dec 20 2017
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/5/2018.
Dec 04 2017
Waiver of right of respondent Commonwealth of Virginia to respond filed.
Nov 21 2017
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 2, 2018)