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Phillip Antonio Davis v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, No. 18-6131 · judgment October 24, 2019

Certiorari denied · October 5, 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.

Questions presented

QUESTIONSPRESENTED

Whether the exclusion of evidence deemed necessary by Petitioner to present a complete defense and to combat the State's theory of guilt could be rationally justified when the State appellate Court applied a blanket rule governing the admissibility of general character trait evidence, despite the fact that excluded evidence of the alleged victim's conduct was directly related to the series of transactions at issue in the case and was not general character or character trait evidence.
In a case in which a criminal defendant asserts that his evidence was excluded without rational justification, are reviewing courts required to address the actual facts sought to be proven by the evidence, to determine whether the facts sought to be proven are material, and to determine whether the excluded evidence would have

For petitioner
Aaron Drue Johnson
Jagers & Johnson, Attorneys at Law, PLLC

For respondent
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Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Oct 05 2020
Petition DENIED.
Aug 19 2020
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2020.
Jan 22 2020
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 7, 2020)