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Ryan Thornton v. Wisconsin

Paid petition · Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, District II, No. 2023AP769-CR · judgment May 9, 2023


Certiorari denied · March 25, 2024
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

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

Question presented

When a defendant is harmed from Ineffective Assistance of Council, the burden of proof needed to be raised in order to correct for this harm caused is often immense. Creating an adequate Appendix and legal arguments that clearly conclude that Attorney Justin Singleton was Ineffective Assistance of [PostConviction and Appellate] Council required an immense amount of effort from Defendant-AppellantPetitioner Ryan T. Thornton (denoted as RYAN throughout this Petition). RYAN filed his 5/12/2023 Petition For Review with the Wisconsin Supreme Court, he raised Issues #1-7, without going into the immense detail that he did in his 10/11/2023 Petition For Review. It took a considerable amount of effort to be this (10/11/2023 Petition For Review) complete about fully explaining how Attorney Justin Singleton was Ineffective Assistance of Council, more effort than most people are capable of putting together. The question presented is: Did the Wisconsin Supreme Court err by Denying-without-response (App.23) RYAN’s ■ 2023AP769 [5/12/2023 Petition For Review] and issuing no response (App.25) to his 2023AP769 [10/11/2023 Petition For Review]?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Ryan Thornton

For respondent
John Arthur Blimling
Wisconsin Department of Justice

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Linked docket
23A294

Proceedings

  1. Mar 25 2024
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Mar 06 2024
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/22/2024.
  3. Feb 27 2024
    Waiver of right of respondent Wisconsin to respond filed.
  4. Jan 16 2024
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 22, 2024)
  5. Oct 04 2023
    Application (23A294) granted by Justice Barrett extending the time to file until January 14, 2024.
  6. Sep 13 2023
    Application (23A294) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from November 15, 2023 to January 14, 2024, submitted to Justice Barrett.