Sharp v. Harris
Petition for certiorari denied on June 15, 2020
Issue: (1) Whether, in holding that the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals made an "unreasonable determination of the facts," the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit contravened the Supreme Court"s repeated admonition that "state-court decisions be given the benefit of the doubt," as in Cullen v. Pinholster and Woodford v. Visciotti; and (2) whether the OCCA was objectively unreasonable in crediting the testimony of three experts who opined that the respondent, Jimmy Dean Harris, was not intellectually disabled and in not crediting the testimony of the one dissenting doctor, who has been censured, used an outdated test, made no assessment of adaptive functioning and disregarded the influence of factors he acknowledged could influence IQ test scores.
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- Petitions of the week (Andrew Hamm, April 8, 2020)
Date | Proceedings and Orders |
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03/02/2020 | Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due April 9, 2020) |
03/18/2020 | Motion to extend the time to file a response from April 9, 2020 to May 11, 2020, submitted to The Clerk. |
03/19/2020 | Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including May 11, 2020. |
05/11/2020 | Brief of respondent Jimmy Dean Harris in opposition filed. |
05/11/2020 | Motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed by respondent Jimmy Dean Harris. |
05/22/2020 | Reply of petitioner Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden filed. |
05/26/2020 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/11/2020. |
06/15/2020 | Motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed by respondent GRANTED. |
06/15/2020 | Petition DENIED. |