No. 18-9167

Michael J. Pendleton v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset

Lower Court: Pennsylvania
Docketed: 2019-05-08
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: 14th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights contract-clause conviction-resentencing criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process ex-post-facto non-existent-crime state-federal-government state-legislation state-legislature substantive-due-process
Key Terms:
DueProcess Securities Privacy
Latest Conference: 2019-10-01
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania violated the petitioner's substantive due process rights by convicting and resentencing him for a non-existent crime not codified or backed by state legislatures, thus violating the 14th Amendment and the contract between state and federal government

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

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Docket Entries

2019-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2019-06-20
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
2018-10-30
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due June 7, 2019)

Attorneys

Michael J. Pendleton
Michael J. Pendleton — Petitioner
Michael J. Pendleton — Petitioner