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Tracy Smith v. Georgia

Paid petition · Supreme Court of Georgia, No. S22A0271 · judgment May 17, 2022

Certiorari denied · October 3, 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

Whether it is a violation of the Sixth Amendment for trial counsel to fail to object to a jury instruction that sanctioned a non-unanimous verdict.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Benjamin A. Davis

For respondent
Stephen John Petrany
Georgia Department of Law

Case

Subject area
Criminal Procedure (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 03 2022
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Aug 24 2022
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2022.
  3. Aug 17 2022
    Waiver of right of respondent Georgia to respond filed.
    Main Document
  4. Aug 11 2022
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 15, 2022)
    PetitionAppendixCertificate of Word CountProof of Service