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Steve Kelly Moyer v. Kansas
Paid petition · Supreme Court of Kansas, No. 105, 183 · judgment February 15, 2019
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
- Oct 07 2019Petition DENIED.
- Jul 10 2019DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
- Jun 26 2019Waiver of right of respondent Kansas to respond filed.
- Jun 20 2019Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 24, 2019)