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Michael Vernon Beaty, Jr. v. South Carolina

Paid petition · Supreme Court of South Carolina, No. 27693 · judgment April 25, 2018

Certiorari denied · October 29, 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

I. Does the South Carolina Supreme Court’s standard for determining harmless constitutional error depart from this Court’s mandates in Chapman v. California, 386 U.S. 18 (1967)? II. Does Due Process confer a right for an accused to have a full and fair opportunity to respond to the prosecution’s best closing argument, meaning the State must open in full on the facts and the law and restrict its reply argument to matters raised by the defense in closing?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
E. Charles Grose Jr.
Grose Law Firm

For respondent
Susannah Rawl Cole
South Carolina Office of the Attorney General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

Oct 29 2018
Petition DENIED.
Oct 09 2018
Motion to declare petition for writ of certiorari timely filed or, in the alternative, to extend time of MICHAEL VERNON BEATY not accepted for filing. (October 15, 2018 - Document not of the type that is to be filed electronically)
Oct 03 2018
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/26/2018.
Sep 26 2018
Waiver of right of respondent STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA to respond filed.
Aug 29 2018
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 9, 2018)