No. 19-5608
Christopher Joe Cantu v. United States
Tags: acca-elements-clause certificate-of-appealability disagreement federal-prisoner judicial-disagreement post-conviction-claim postconviction-claim reasonable-judges statutory-interpretation texas-aggravated-robbery texas-burglary
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus Privacy
DueProcess HabeasCorpus Privacy
Latest Conference:
2019-10-01
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether a federal prisoner is entitled to a certificate of appealability when reasonable judges have disagreed about the legal issues governing his post-conviction claim
Question Presented (OCR Extract)
QUESTION PRESENTED Where a federal prisoner demonstrates that judges have, in fact, disagreed about the legal issues governing his postconviction claim, is he entitled to issuance of a certificate of appealability?
Docket Entries
2019-10-07
Petition DENIED. Justice Kagan took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.
2019-09-05
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
2019-08-27
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2019-08-12
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 16, 2019)
Attorneys
Christopher Cantu
James Matthew Wright — Office of the Federal Public Defender, Petitioner
United States
Noel J. Francisco — Solicitor General, Respondent