No. 19-6759

James A. Lackey v. United States

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-11-26
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP Experienced Counsel
Tags: appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-deference jurists-of-reason mandatory-sentencing-guidelines ninth-circuit residual-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review vagueness void-for-vagueness
Key Terms:
AdministrativeLaw DueProcess HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2020-01-24
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court's 'debatable among jurists of reason' standard for a certificate of appealability

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied this Court’s “debatable among jurists of reason” standard for a certificate of appealability. 2. Whether the residual clause of the mandatory Sentencing Guidelines at U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(a)(2) is void for vagueness. prefix

Docket Entries

2020-01-27
Petition DENIED. Justice Sotomayor, with whom Justice Ginsburg joins, dissenting from the denial of certiorari: I dissent for the reasons set out in Brown v. United States, 586 U. S. ___ (2018) (Sotomayor, J., dissenting).
2020-01-09
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/24/2020.
2020-01-07
Reply of petitioner James A. Lackey filed. (Distributed)
2019-12-26
Memorandum of respondent United States of America filed.
2019-11-20
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 26, 2019)

Attorneys

James A. Lackey
Kara Lee HartzlerFederal Defenders of San Diego, Inc., Petitioner
Kara Lee HartzlerFederal Defenders of San Diego, Inc., Petitioner
United States of America
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent