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Steven Carrol DeMocker v. Arizona
Paid petition · Court of Appeals of Arizona, Division One, No. 1 CA-CR 20-0456 PRPC · judgment March 16, 2021
Before the decision, modestly above the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for counsel with five or more prior petitions here, a circuit split argued in the petition, and a petition citing one or two dissents, and down for a state or local-government respondent.
Question presented
This petition presents the question whether offering an implausible third-party culpability defense violates a defendant’s right to the effective assistance of counsel where there is a readily available, coherent, and compelling defense.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
John Robert Mills
Phillips Black
For respondent
Steven A. Young
Yavapai County Attorney's Office
Case
Subject area
Criminal Procedure (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Order
Order list, March 21, 2022 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Mar 21 2022Petition DENIED.
- Mar 02 2022DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/18/2022.
- Feb 08 2022Waiver of right of respondent State of Arizona to respond filed.
- Jan 31 2022Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 4, 2022)