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Donald G. Karr, Jr. v. Mark R. Sevier, Warden

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, No. 21-2463 · judgment March 30, 2022


Certiorari denied · October 3, 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 the Davis-Hatton Procedure is unconstitutional as-applied to Mr. Karr’s case and whether the Indiana State Courts and United States District Court For The Southern District of Indiana erred in denying Mr. Karr Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment’s guaranteed right to counsel and due process. Whether the appellate attorney provided ineffective assistance of counsel by initiating a Davis Petition. Whether the United States District Court For The Southern District of Indiana erred in not holding ineffective assistance of counsel when Petitioner’s counsel objectively failed, with that failure’s impact a disproportionately positive multiplier effect forgone, when the standard of review is not about whether there would be a different verdict with the evidence, but whether in its absence he received a fair trial. Whether the United States District Court For The Southern District of Indiana erred in not holding ineffective of counsel from an accumulation or errors.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Robert L. Sirianni Jr.
Brownstone, P.A.

For respondent
Aaron Thomas Craft
Office of the Indiana Attorney General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 03 2022
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Aug 03 2022
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2022.
  3. Aug 01 2022
    Waiver of right of respondent Mark Sevier to respond filed.
  4. Jun 27 2022
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 1, 2022)