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Adnan Syed v. Maryland
Paid petition · Court of Appeals of Maryland, No. 24, September Term, 2018 · judgment March 8, 2019
Before the decision, roughly the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a circuit split argued in the petition, counsel who has filed here before, and a petition citing one or two dissents, and down for a state or local-government respondent.
Question presented
Whether a court evaluating prejudice under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), must take the State’s case as it was presented to the jury, as ten state and federal courts have held, or whether the court may instead hypothesize that the jury may have disbelieved the State’s case, as the Maryland Court of Appeals held below. (i)
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Catherine Emily Stetson
Hogan Lovells US LLP
For respondent
Carrie J. Williams
Goodell DeVries Leech & Dann
Case
Subject area
Criminal Procedure (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Amicus briefs
3 cert-stage
Linked docket
18A1320
Order
Order list, November 25, 2019 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Nov 25 2019Petition DENIED.
- Nov 06 2019DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/22/2019.
- Nov 01 2019Reply of petitioner Adnan Syed filed.
- Oct 18 2019Brief of respondent State of Maryland in opposition filed.
- Sep 20 2019Brief amici curiae of Martin Tankleff and Thirty-Eight Other Wrongfully Convicted Individuals filed.
- Sep 20 2019Brief amici curiae of The Innocence Network and The Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center filed.
- Sep 17 2019Brief amicus curiae of National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers filed.
- Sep 13 2019Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including October 21, 2019.
- Sep 10 2019Motion to extend the time to file a response from September 20, 2019 to October 21, 2019, submitted to The Clerk.
- Aug 26 2019Blanket Consent filed by Petitioner, Adnan Syed.
- Aug 19 2019Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 20, 2019)
- Jun 18 2019Application (18A1320) granted by The Chief Justice extending the time to file until August 19, 2019.
- Jun 17 2019Application (18A1320) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from July 18, 2019 to August 19, 2019, submitted to The Chief Justice.