Abu-Ali Abdur'Rahman (fna James Lee Jones Jr.)

12/11/19

• Stay Order - 12/11/19
• Reach Down Order Denied- 12/11/19

09/26/19

• Appellee's Notice of Intent to File Response Pursuant to Tennessee Supreme Court Rule48(b)

Execution Date - April 16, 2020

• Order re-setting exucation date

Execution Date - April 9, 2020

• Order setting execution date

Lethal Injection Protocol Challenge filed in 20th judicial district

• Trial Court Decision - 7/26/18
   
• Trial Court Order - 7/26/18

• Tennessee Supreme Court Reach Down Order - 8/13/18
• Tennessee Supreme Court Reach Down Order - Dissent 8/13/18
• Tennessee Supreme Court Order Denying States Motion as Moot - 8/13/18
• Tennessee Supreme Court Order Denying Motion to Bifurcate the Appeal and Granting Motion to Designate Four Plaintiffs as Appellants - 8/27/18
• Tennessee Supreme Court Order Denying Motion to Bifurcate or Extend Time (Dissenting) - 8/27/18
• Tennessee Supreme Court Brief - Lead Appellants Brief Filed - 9/6/18
• Tennessee Supreme Court Brief - Appellants Brief Filed - 9/6/18
• Tennessee Supreme Court Order Granting Motion to Exceed Page Limitation - 9/7/18
• Tennessee Supreme Court Order Denying Motion to Waive Table of Authorities - 9/7/18
• Appellee's Response in Opposition to Appellants' Motion to Consider
  Post-Judgment Facts and Appellees' Motion to Strike - 9/11/18
• Tennessee Supreme Court Notice of Filing Table of Authorities - 9/12/18
• Table of Authorities - 9/12/18
• Tennessee Supreme Court - Amended Brief of Appellants' to Include Table of Authorities - 9/12/18
• Tennessee Supreme Court - Appellees' Reply to Response to Motion to Expand the Record - 9/13/18
• Lead Appellants' Unopposed Motion to Extend the Length of Oral Argument - 9/18/18
• Tennessee Supreme Court Order - Extending the Length of Oral Argument - 9/19/18
• Tennessee Supreme Court - Appellants Brief Filed - 9/21/18
• Tennessee Supreme Court - Amended Brief Filed - 9/26/18
• Tennessee Supreme Court - Reply Brief of Plaintiffs-Appellants filed - 9/28/18
• Tenneseee Supreme Court - Majority Opinion - 10/8/18
• Tennessee Supreme Court - Dissenting Opinion - 10/8/18

03/15/18

• Order granting amicus and denying state's motion
• Brief of TN. Assoc. of Criminal Defense Lawyers and Individual Tennessee Attorneys as Amici Curiae in Support of Defendant
• Brief of Amicus Curiae Tennessee District Public Defender's Conference Regarding Setting of Execution Dates

03/05/18

• Motion for Leave to File Brief of Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and Individual Tennessee Attorneys as Amici Curiae in Support of Defendant's Opposition to Movant's Motion to Set Execution Dates

• Brief of Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and Individual Tennessee Attorneys as Amici Curiae in Support of Defendant

03/01/18

• Response to State's Motion for Expedited Execution Dates and Reasons Why no Execution Date Should be Set

01/18/18

• Response to Notice

01/11/18

• Notice of Filing

4/10/2015

• Supreme Court Stay of Execution Order

1/31/2014

• Order Setting Execution Date

5/22/2006

• U.S. Supreme Court Denies Certiorari in lethal injection case

• State's Response to Petition for Writ of Certiorari to U.S. Supreme Court

• Petition for Writ of Certiorari to U.S. Supreme Court 
  • Appendix 

• U.S. 6th District Circuit Court remands case to the federal district court

• Order granting extension of time to prepare appellant's reply brief.

• Motion for Enlargement of Time to File Appeal

• Stay of Execution by U.S. Sixth Circuit

• Order and memorandum regarding constitutionality of lethal injection protocol

• Order setting an execution date 
• Reply to Response in Opposition and Request for Oral Argument

• State's response to petition to reinstate T.R.A.P. 11 appeal

• Petition to reinstate TRAP 11 appeal
  • Appendix D

• Notice of Intent to File Pleading for Extraordinary Relief
• Notice of Filing of Documents

• Order denying rehear

• Second Supplement to Petitioner's Opposition to Motion to Reset Execution Date
• Petition for Rehearing Rule 11 Denial

• Supplement to petitioner's opposition to motion to reset execution date

• Order from US District Court transferring case to US Court of Appeals for the 6th District

• Motion to reset execution date
• Motion in opposition

• Order granting evidentiary hearing (TN Fifth Circuit)

• Order granting petition for writ of certiorari and questions to be considered (U.S. Supreme Court) 

• Petition for Writ of Certiorari (U.S. Supreme Court)

• State's response to motion for stay (U.S. Supreme Court)
• State's Brief response to request for Certiorari (U.S. Supreme Court)

• Order requesting comments on status of case (Criminal Court 20th Judicial District)
• Order denying habeas corpus (U.S. Supreme Court)
• Order granting stay pending ruling on petition for writ of certiorari (U.S. Supreme Court)
• Petition for writ of Habeas Corpus (U.S. Supreme Court)
• Response to Petition (U.S. Supreme Court)

• Response in Opposition to Motion to Reopen Post-Conviction Petition (Criminal Court 20th Judicial District)
• Response in Opposition to Motion for Stay of Execution (PDF) (Criminal Court 20th Judicial District)
• Order setting hearing (Criminal Court 20th Judicial District)
• Order appointing counsel (Criminal Court 20th Judicial District)
• Order denying recall of Mandate (TN Supreme Court)
  • Dissent 
• Governor's statement denying clemency

• State's Response to Motion for Stay
• Request for Post Conviction Defender 
• Motion to Appoint Counsel 
• Motion for Stay 
• Motion to Reopen
• Motion for Stay of Execution 

• Defendant's reply to State's response
• Order granting Motion to File Amicus Curiae
• Motion to file Brief of Amicus Curiae 

• State's response to Motion to Recall Mandate

• Affidavit of Donal Campbell
• Motion to Dismiss Petition 
• Memorandum of Law in Support of Motion to dismiss 
• Petition for Declaratory Judgment (Chancery Court 20th Judicial District)
• Motion to recall mandate and consider post judgment facts. (PDF)

• Petition to U.S. Supreme Court for Writ of Certiorari

• Order denying motion to reconsider

• Order denying motion to withhold issuance of mandate and request for en banc hearing (U.S. Court of Appeals for 6th Circuit)

• Order denying motions (U.S. Court of Appeals for 6th Circuit)

• Defendant's Motion to Reconsider 

• Order setting execution date
  • Dissent 

• Defendant's Supplemental Response 

• Response to "Notice of Putative Ford Claim and Motion to Modify Van Tran Proceeding"
• Response to "Motion for Certificate of Commutation Pursuant to S.Ct.R. 12.4 and T.C.A. Section 40-27-106 and for other relief pursuant to S.Ct.R. 11"

12/21/2001

• Motion for Certificate of Commutation and Other Relief
• Response to Motion to Set Execution Date
• Notice of Putative Ford Claim and Motion to Modify Van Tran Proceeding
• Motion for Appointment of Counsel
• Motion for Style to Reflect Legal Name of Party

• Order Denying Motion to Strike 
• Motion to Strike Motion to Set Execution Date 
• Index to Appendices

• Motion to set execution date

• Motion for relief from judgment (Rule 60)
• Memo in support of motion for relief from judgment

• Motion to withhold mandate and grant rehearing or remand (U.S. Court of Appeals for 6th Circuit)

• Response to Motion to Withold Mandate

• U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals for denies petition for en banc hearing

• Order denying State's request to set execution date (PDF)

• Objection to motion to re-set execution date (PDF)

• Opinion Denying Writ of Habeas Corpus - LINK to U.S.Court of Appeals for 6th Circuit 
• Motion to Set Execution Date