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Andrew Huy Chrostowski v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections

Paid petition · Supreme Court of Virginia, No. 200666 · judgment January 25, 2021


Certiorari denied · March 21, 2022
Pre-decision estimate: 2% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

A. Did trial counsel’s failure to make a constitutionally adequate inquiry into viable defenses deprive the petitioner of his right to present ‘full and fair defense’? B. Did his sentence violate the petitioner’s right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? i PETITION FOR CERTIORARI

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Dale Reese Jensen
Dale Jensen, PLC

For respondent
Andrew Nathan Ferguson
Office of the Attorney General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Mar 21 2022
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Feb 23 2022
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/18/2022.
  3. Feb 17 2022
    Waiver of right of respondent Harold Clarke to respond filed.
  4. Oct 08 2021
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 18, 2022)