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Brandon D. Woodruff v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 18-10133 · judgment September 20, 2018

Certiorari denied · October 7, 2019
Pre-decision estimate: 2% cert probability

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

Question presented

A prosecutor had Petitioner’s jail telephone calls recorded, listened to them, made notes from them and had at least one witness listen to them. This blatant violation of Petitioner’s Sixth Amendment rights should have resulted in dismissal of the charge under United States v. Morrison, 449 U.S. 361, 365-366 (1981). The district court held otherwise and the Fifth Circuit denied a certificate of appealability. Did this denial constitute reversible error?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
John Davidson Nation

For respondent
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Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 07 2019
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jun 26 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
  3. Dec 19 2018
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 10, 2019)