Retaliation for reporting misconduct
In Re Johnny Walls-Bey, Petitioner
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Petition denied.
- What it’s about
- Johnny Walls-Bey asked the Supreme Court to stop state probation-revocation proceedings, alleging that state courts turned his civil-rights appeal into a criminal matter and retaliated against his First Amendment activity while keeping his claims of police perjury and withheld evidence from federal review.
- Who it affects
- The denial did not stop the state probation-revocation proceedings Walls-Bey asked the Court to halt.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.

What it's about
The Court refused that request (denied his petition), without announcing a decision on his constitutional claims.
Walls-Bey argued that an unpublished state order turned his civil-rights appeal into a criminal proceeding.
Question presented
1. Does a state appellate court violate the Due Process Clause and the Supremacy Clause when it weaponizes an unpublished administrative order to convert a mandatory civil rights appeal (protecting First Amendment petitioning) into a discretionary criminal proceeding to shield proven police perjury and Brady violations from federal review? 2. Must an Extraordinary Writ of Prohibition issue under 28 U.S.C. § 1651 to halt ongoing state probation revocation proceedings where the state courts, acting wholly absent subject-matter jurisdiction, have weaponized an unappealable administrative docket (1 CA-CR 26-0250 PRPC) to shield rogue officials who are prosecuting a Tribal Citizen in bad-faith retaliation—in direct violation of the Dombrowski doctrine—for exercising his First Amendment right to expose how the State deliberately suborned perjury and withheld Brady evidence to bypass mandatory federal Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) jurisdiction?
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