No. 18-5921

Jeffrey Allen Stevens v. United States

Lower Court: Tenth Circuit
Docketed: 2018-09-10
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: 1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights civil-unrest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-trial law-enforcement-misconduct standing
Key Terms:
FirstAmendment DueProcess JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2018-10-05
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Are Predictions of Civil Unrest or Violent Revolt Protected Speech under the First Amendment?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Are Predictions, Prognostications or any synonym thereof of any sort, and ». specifically in this case, Predictions of-Civil Unrest or-even of violent, open: revolt in response to systemic misconduct, murder & predictable, institutionalized denial of : Justice by Law Enforcement and the Courts, Protected Speech under the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment? 2. Are U.S. Citizens entitled, under the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment to openly express their fear, their sense of betrayal, their anger, hatred and intolerance of Injustice and evil regardless of who the perpetrators are? 3. Are direct victims of unwarranted Law Enforcement violence and misconduct, and ~ their loved-ones; entitled, under the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment:to openly -.. express their fear, their sense of betrayal, their anger, hatred and intolerance of this undeniable and growing Nation-wide problem? ; i Cy 4, Are U.S. Federal Judges entitled to bypass Article III, Section 2, Clause 3 and Amendment VI of the U.S. Constitution as well as Rule 18 of Criminal Procedure and deny the accused Trial by Jury by declaring that in their opinion a Reasonable Jury would find the accused guilty? 5. Are U.S. Federal Courts entitled to bypass Article ITI, Section 2, Clause 3 of the : U.S. Constitution and-Amendment VI as well as Rule 18 of U:S. Criminal 7 Procedure and force the accused to appear in a State he has never visited, a State . other than where the allegéd crime was committed in a victimless alleged crime? ii

Docket Entries

2018-10-09
Petition DENIED.
2018-09-20
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/5/2018.
2018-09-17
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2018-08-31
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 10, 2018)
2018-07-18
Application (18A67) granted by Justice Sotomayor extending the time to file until September 3, 2018.
2018-06-21
Application (18A67) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from July 5, 2018 to September 3, 2018, submitted to Justice Sotomayor.

Attorneys

Jeffrey Allen Stevens
Jeffrey A. Stevens — Petitioner
United States
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent