Mose Young v. Dee Joyce Hayes, Circuit Attorney for the City of St. Louis, and Alfred D. Luebbers, Superintendent, Potosi Correctional Center

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• holding that due process violation in state clemency proceeding can occur where the state “unconscionably interferes with a process that the State itself has created”
• holding that due process violation in state clemency proceeding can occur where the state “unconscionably interferes with a process that the State itself has created”
• holding that a city attorney’s interference, in the form of witness tampering, with the petitioner’s efforts to present evidence to the Missouri Governor in his clemency application was “fundamentally unfair” and required a stay of execution
• holding state official violated due process by intentionally trying to sabotage inmate’s clemency application
• due process violation where the state “unconscionably interferes with a process that the State itself has created”
• “This panel is bound by previous panel opinions of our own Court, but we are not so bound if an intervening expression of the Supreme Court is inconsistent with those previous opinions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).