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Robert Anderson v. Teri Kennedy

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, No. 19-2329 · judgment March 19, 2020

Certiorari denied · October 13, 2020
Pre-decision estimate: 4% cert probability

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.

Question presented

Whether this Court’s decision in Holmes v. South Carolina, 547 U.S. 319 (2006, clearly establishes that a defendant’s due process right to present evidence is violated by a state rule which arbitrarily excludes expert testimony on eyewitness identification merely because there is evidence of defendant’s guilt apart from the eyewitness identification.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Stephen Louis Richards
Law Office of Stephen L. Richards

For respondent
Michael Marc Glick

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
1 cert-stage

Order
Order list, October 13, 2020 · Certiorari denied

Proceedings

  1. Oct 13 2020
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Sep 28 2020
    Brief amicus curiae of The Illinois Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers filed. (Distributed)
  3. Sep 16 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/9/2020.
  4. Sep 09 2020
    Waiver of right of respondent Teri Kennedy to respond filed.
  5. Aug 17 2020
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 28, 2020)