Collective punishment in prison
Randall Edward Fletcher v. Whitten
In brief
- Where it stands
- Petition Pending
Awaiting an order on the petition
- What it’s about
- Randall Edward Fletcher asks the Supreme Court to review lower-court rulings in his civil-rights case, raising issues about collective punishment, due process, access to exculpatory evidence and discovery, and a claimed loss of a liberty interest.
- What's at stake
- Fletcher’s request remains unresolved; the Supreme Court has not ruled on his claims.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
His petition and request to proceed without paying fees were filed and distributed for a conference; that distribution is not a decision to hear the case.
His petition raises Fourteenth Amendment questions about collective punishment, due process, discovery, evidence, and a claimed loss of liberty.
Question presented
1. Whether the usage of collective punishment 12 is legal within the terms of the United States Constitution as applied to the States via the Fourteenth Amendment? See Blake v. Hall, 668 F.2d 52 (1st Cir. 1981). 2. Whether the lower court's interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment conflicts with prior decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court? 3. Whether the denial of Petitioners U.S.C.A. Title 42 § 1983 motion to the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma violated Due Process under the Fourteenth Amendment? 4. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated when the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, see 2026 WL 372182, affirms the United States District Court's decision stating the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma can decide for the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals? See 2025 WL 3460947. 5. When the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals sends the decision to the Federal District Court for a decision does the Tenth Circuit relinquish their superior jurisdiction to the lower court? 6. Whether the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma ruled correctly when it denies a Petitioner's pleading as to the denial of exculpatory evidence thus violating the United States Constitution and subsequently the Rules of Evidence of the State of Oklahoma and the Federal Rules of Evidence? See Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83, 83 S.Ct. 1194,10 L.Ed.2d215 (1963). 7. Whether the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma denies due process, by not allowing discovery to be conducted, to prove that the State Actor's violated the laws and rules of the State of Oklahoma? See Butera v. Boucher, 798A.2d 340 (R.l. 2002). 8. Whether Petitioner was deprived of liberty interest as provided in the United States Constitution and applied to the States by the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution?
What happens next
The petition was distributed for a Nov. 13, 2026 conference. The Court must decide whether to hear it; no oral argument or decision date is set.
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Sources
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