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Jeffrey Fairbanks v. Indiana
Paid petition · Supreme Court of Indiana, No. 18S-CR-604 · judgment March 27, 2019
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Questions presented
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Whether the judiciary violated the Ex Post Facto Clause when it created a new evidentiary holding to excuse the impermissible use of propensity evidence to affirm a conviction.
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Whether Petitioner’s Due Process rights were violated when the evidence introduced at trial only amounted to speculation that a crime was committed and not proof beyond a reasonable doubt as is required by law.
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Whether a criminal conviction can stand when the jury may have convicted the defendant on facts that do not constitute a crime.
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Whether the Indiana neglect-of-a-dependent statute is unconstitutionally vague where even falling asleep can be deemed leaving a child unsupervised.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Alexandra Crisanthi Siskopoulos
Siskopoulos Law Firm, LLP
For respondent
Stephen Richard Creason
Case
Subject area
Criminal Procedure (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Linked docket
18A1293
Order
Order list, October 7, 2019 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Oct 07 2019Petition DENIED.
- Aug 28 2019DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
- Aug 20 2019Waiver of right of respondent State of Indiana to respond filed.
- Jul 25 2019Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 29, 2019)
- Jun 18 2019Application (18A1293) granted by Justice Kavanaugh extending the time to file until July 25, 2019.
- Jun 07 2019Application (18A1293) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from June 25, 2019 to July 25, 2019, submitted to Justice Kavanaugh.