No. 19-6115

Jose Manuel Aguirre-Ganceda v. United States

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-10-01
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: actual-innocence collateral-attack criminal-justice criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-conviction due-process federal-law federal-state-comity mandatory-life-sentence mandatory-minimum prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement state-court-reduction state-law
Key Terms:
HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2019-11-08
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a defendant is actually innocent of a mandatory life sentence once a prior state drug conviction relied upon by the District Court is set aside by the state courts, thus leaving the defendant with but a single conviction

Question Presented (from Petition)

No question identified. :

Docket Entries

2019-11-12
Petition DENIED.
2019-10-24
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/8/2019.
2019-10-09
Waiver of right of respondent United States of America to respond filed.
2019-09-25
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 31, 2019)

Attorneys

Jose Aguirre-Ganceda
Matthew A. CampbellFederal Defenders of Eastern Washington & Idaho, Petitioner
Matthew A. CampbellFederal Defenders of Eastern Washington & Idaho, Petitioner
United States of America
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent