Syed v. Maryland

Petition for certiorari denied on November 25, 2019

Docket No.	Op. Below	Argument	Opinion	Vote	Author	Term
19-227	Md.	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	OT 2019

Issue: Whether a court evaluating prejudice under Strickland v. Washington must take the state"s case as it was presented to the jury, as 10 state and federal courts have held, or whether the court may instead hypothesize that the jury may have disbelieved the state"s case, as the Maryland Court of Appeals held below.

SCOTUSblog Coverage

Justices issue more orders from November 22 conference (Amy Howe, November 25, 2019)
Petitions of the week (Andrew Hamm, September 20, 2019)

Date	Proceedings and Orders (key to color coding)
06/17/2019	Application (18A1320) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from July 18, 2019 to August 19, 2019, submitted to The Chief Justice.
06/18/2019	Application (18A1320) granted by The Chief Justice extending the time to file until August 19, 2019.
08/19/2019	Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 20, 2019)
08/26/2019	Blanket Consent filed by Petitioner, Adnan Syed.
09/10/2019	Motion to extend the time to file a response from September 20, 2019 to October 21, 2019, submitted to The Clerk.
09/13/2019	Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including October 21, 2019.
09/17/2019	Brief amicus curiae of National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers filed.
09/20/2019	Brief amici curiae of Martin Tankleff and Thirty-Eight Other Wrongfully Convicted Individuals filed.
09/20/2019	Brief amici curiae of The Innocence Network and The Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center filed.
10/18/2019	Brief of respondent State of Maryland in opposition filed.
11/01/2019	Reply of petitioner Adnan Syed filed.
11/06/2019	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/22/2019.
11/25/2019	Petition DENIED.