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Armand Jones v. Mississippi

Paid petition · Supreme Court of Mississippi, No. 2017-CT-01082-SCT · judgment April 8, 2021

Certiorari denied · March 21, 2022
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

Whether a defendant forfeits his Sixth Amendment right to confront a witness against him when the defendant did not engage in conduct designed to prevent the witness from testifying but the wrongful act of a codefendant made the witness unavailable to testify?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Graham Patrick Carner
Graham P. Carner, PLLC

For respondent
Barbara Wakeland Byrd
Mississippi Attorney General's Office

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences

Proceedings

  1. Mar 21 2022
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Feb 23 2022
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/18/2022.
  3. Feb 07 2022
    Brief of respondent Mississippi in opposition filed.
    Main DocumentProof of ServiceCertificate of Word Count
  4. Dec 08 2021
    Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including February 7, 2022.
  5. Dec 07 2021
    Motion to extend the time to file a response from January 5, 2022 to February 7, 2022, submitted to The Clerk.
    Main Document
  6. Dec 06 2021
    Response Requested. (Due January 5, 2022)
  7. Nov 23 2021
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/10/2021.
  8. Nov 16 2021
    Waiver of right of respondent Mississippi to respond filed.
    Main Document
  9. Oct 25 2021
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 26, 2021)
    Petition