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Bill Cool, Warden v. Nathaniel Jackson
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, No. 21-3207, 21-3280 · judgment August 6, 2024
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
This Court’s precedent in Lockett, Eddings, and Skipper require that state courts admit and consider all relevant mitigating evidence that a death-eligible convict wants to present. And when the state courts fail to do so, this Court has remanded for them to fix the error. The question is: Has this Court clearly required state courts to reopen the mitigation evidence in every death-penalty remand, even if the error did not affect the defendant’s opportunity to submit mitigation evidence?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Thomas Elliot Gaiser
Office of the Ohio Attorney General
For respondent
Paul Rudolph Bottei
Office of the Federal Public Defender
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Mar 03 2025Motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed by respondent GRANTED.
- Mar 03 2025Petition DENIED.
- Feb 12 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/28/2025.
- Feb 12 2025Reply of petitioner Bill Cool, Warden filed. (Distributed)
- Jan 29 2025Motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed by respondent Nathaniel Jackson.
- Jan 29 2025Brief of respondent Nathaniel Jackson in opposition filed.
- Dec 04 2024Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 29, 2025)