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Hall v. Watson

Petition for certiorari denied on November 19, 2020

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Docket No. Op. Below Argument Opinion Vote Author Term
20-697 CA07 N/A N/A N/A N/A OT 2020

Issue: Whether (1) 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) permits use of 28 U.S.C. § 2241 as a vehicle to present new evidence that a federal death sentence is tainted by racial discrimination when 28 U.S.C. § 2255 otherwise provides no avenue to present such evidence for consideration; and (2) whether executing a Black prisoner whose conviction and death sentence were procured through intentional race discrimination constitutes a fundamental miscarriage of justice, which overrides any procedural limitation on raising a Batson claim for review in federal court.

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