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Lisa Marie Michel v. New Hampshire
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Petition denied.
- What it’s about
- Lisa Marie Michel asks the Supreme Court to review whether New Hampshire may reject her constitutional claims because the appeal record lacked facts she says she could not establish herself, despite her requests for court help filling those gaps.
- Who it affects
- Michel received no Supreme Court ruling on her claims; the Court did not decide whether the record gaps justified rejecting them.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
Michel said key facts were missing from her appeal record, that she could not create or certify those facts herself, and that she had asked courts to establish them.
Question presented
1. Whether due process permits a criminal defendant to bear the consequences of unresolved institutional facts necessary to determine compliance, materiality, prejudice, or meaningful review where the defendant cannot independently create or certify those facts and timely sought judicial procedures to establish them. 2. Whether due process permits preserved constitutional claims to be rejected for an. inadequate appellate record where the defendant identified the inadequacy before briefing and timely sought judicial establishment of material portions of the record she could not independently create.
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