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Bradley William Kennedy v. Stephen Morris, Warden, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 19-15480 · judgment October 25, 2019

Certiorari denied · May 26, 2020
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 Bradley Kennedy's petition for a writ of habeas corpus is time barred under the one-year statute of limitations set forth in the anti-terrorism & effective death penalty act of 1996 ("AEDPA")? Whether Bradley Kennedy is entitled to relief pursuant to the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment because he was convicted without any plausible evidence of a critical element of the crime, and because of inadmissible prejudicial evidence? Whether the cumulative effect of various trial errors so infected Bradley Kennedy's Trial with unfairness as to make his conviction a denial of Due Process? Whether Bradley Kennedy's sentence violations the 8th Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Anders V. Rosenquist
Rosenquist & Associates

For respondent
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Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. May 26 2020
    Petition DENIED.
  2. May 05 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/21/2020.
  3. Apr 13 2020
    Letter from counsel for petitioner filed.
  4. Mar 19 2020
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due April 23, 2020)