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South Carolina v. Raymond Lewis Young

Paid petition · Court of Appeals of South Carolina, No. 2013-000149 · judgment November 15, 2017


Certiorari denied · November 13, 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. Whether, upon reversing Respondent’s conviction on grounds that: “The trial court erred in failing to conduct a proper analysis under the third step of a Batson review,” the South Carolina Court of Appeals decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with relevant decisions of this Court, and whether the South Carolina Supreme Court improperly allowed that decision to stand by declining to conduct a discretionary review of the Court of Appeals’ decision despite the existence of these conflicts.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
John Benjamin Aplin
S.C. Office of the Attorney General

For respondent
Jeffrey Falkner Wilkes

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Linked docket
18A81

Proceedings

  1. Nov 13 2018
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Oct 24 2018
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/9/2018.
  3. Oct 18 2018
    Brief of respondent Raymond Lewis Young in opposition filed.
  4. Oct 18 2018
    Waiver of the 14-day waiting period under Rule 15.5 filed by petitioner.
  5. Sep 14 2018
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 18, 2018)
  6. Jul 23 2018
    Application (18A81) granted by The Chief Justice extending the time to file until September 16, 2018.
  7. Jun 28 2018
    Application (18A81) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from July 18, 2018 to September 16, 2018, submitted to The Chief Justice.