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John Pinder v. Scott Crowther, Warden

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, No. 19-4039 · judgment February 11, 2020


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.

Question presented

The question presented, which has divided federal courts of appeals and state high courts, and on which petition for certiorari is pending before this Court in Farrar v. Williams, No. 19-953 is: Whether Due Process is violated when a prosecutor relies on false testimony to secure a conviction but did not know that the testimony was false until after trial, as six courts have held, or whether Due Process is violated only where the prosecutor knows the testimony is false at the time of trial, as eight courts have held.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Andrew Henry Parnes

For respondent
Aaron Gregory Murphy
Utah Attorney General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 05 2020
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Sep 09 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2020.
  3. Sep 04 2020
    Waiver of right of respondent Scott Crowther to respond filed.
  4. Sep 01 2020
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 5, 2020)