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Steve Kelly Moyer v. Kansas

Paid petition · Supreme Court of Kansas, No. 105, 183 · judgment February 15, 2019


Certiorari denied · October 7, 2019
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 the Kansas Supreme Court Who Affirmed the Remand Court’s Analysis and Findings on Moyer’s Counsel’s Effectiveness under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S. Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984) and Edgar v. State, 294 Kan. 828, 283 P.3d 132 (2012) and Held: “Giving Deference to the Lower Court’s Credibility Assessments and Considering the Overwhelming Evidence Against Moyer, We Agree That There Was No Reasonable Probability That the Outcome of the Case Would Have Been Different Had J.T. Testified”, Failed to Consider the Prejudicial Constitutional Errors Committed by Trial Counsel and Applied an Incorrect Standard in Violation of the Binding Principals of Stare Decisis, Contrary to this Court’s Rulings in Chapman v. California, 386 U.S. 18, 87 S. Ct. 824, 17 L.Ed.2d 705 (1967) (Where this Court Admonished Against Giving to Much Emphasis to “Overwhelming Evidence” of Guilt, Stating That Constitutional Errors Affecting the Substantial Rights of the Aggrieved Party Could Not Be Considered to Be Harmless); and Neder v. United States, 527 U.S. 1, 119 S. Ct. 1827, 144 L.Ed.2d 35 (1999) (Where this Court Held: “A Limited Class of Fundamental Constitutional Errors Is So Intrinsically Harmful as to Require Automatic Reversal Without Regard to Their Effect on a Trial’s Outcome. Such Errors Infect the Entire Trial Process and Necessarily Render a Trial Fundamentally Unfair”)?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Robert Allen Anderson Sr.
Law Office of Donald E. Anderson II, LLC

For respondent
Natalie Chalmers

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 07 2019
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jul 10 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
  3. Jun 26 2019
    Waiver of right of respondent Kansas to respond filed.
  4. Jun 20 2019
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 24, 2019)