Woodward v. Alabama

Petition for certiorari denied on November 18, 2013

Docket No.	Op. Below	Argument	Opinion	Vote	Author	Term
13-5380	Crim. App.	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	OT 2013

Issue: (1) Whether the increasingly rare and geographically isolated practice of imposing the death penalty through override violates the nation's evolving standards of decency and the Eighth Amendment; and (2) whether, when the jury determines that aggravation does not outweigh mitigation, the trial judge's override of that determination based on evidence not considered by the jury violates the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a jury under Ring v. Arizona.

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Date	Proceedings and Orders (key to color coding)
07/16/2013	Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 19, 2013)
08/15/2013	Order extending time to file response to petition to and including September 18, 2013.
09/18/2013	Brief of respondent Alabama in opposition filed.
10/01/2013	Reply of petitioner Mario Dion Woodward filed. (Distributed)
10/03/2013	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of October 18, 2013.
10/28/2013	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of November 1, 2013.
11/04/2013	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of November 8, 2013.
11/05/2013	Record requested from Circuit Court of Mobile County, Alabama.
11/05/2013	Record requested from Circuit Court of Baldwin County, Alabama.
11/05/2013	Record requested from Circuit Court of Randolph County, Alabama.
11/08/2013	Transcripts of Sentencing Hearing from Baldwin County and Randolph County, Alabama received and are electronically filed.
11/12/2013	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of November 15, 2013.
11/14/2013	Record received from Circuit Court of Mobile County, Alabama. (1-box)
11/18/2013	Petition DENIED. Justice Sotomayor, with whom Justice Breyer joins as to parts I and II, dissenting from denial of certiorari. (Detached Opinion)
11/18/2013	Record return to Circuit of Alabama, Mobile County. (1-box)