No. 19-6824

Thomas Abdul Holcombe v. United States

Lower Court: Second Circuit
Docketed: 2019-12-04
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: circuit-split circuit-splits ex-post-facto non-delegation-doctrine right-to-travel SORNA-prosecution sorna-violations venue venue-issue
Key Terms:
SocialSecurity FifthAmendment DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2020-01-10
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Court must resolve splits among and within the circuits because across the country there is no uniformity of prosecution of alleged SORNA violations on the issue of venue?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

Questions Presented 1. Whether the Court must resolve splits among and within the circuits because across the country there is no uniformity of prosecution of alleged SORNA violations on the issue of venue? 2. Whether SORNA violates the non-delegation doctrine in the grant to the Attorney General unconstrained discretion to decide to whom SORNA applies without an “intelligible principle” to guide this discretion? 3. Whether SORNA Violates Petitioner’s right to travel, a right which is identified in this Court’s precedent in Saenz v. Roe, 526 U.S. 489, 500 (1999)? 4. Whether the Court of Appeals’ failure to remedy the ex post facto violation is in conflict with this Court’s decision in Collins v. Youngblood, 497 U.S. 37 (1990), as application of SORNA to Petitioner’s circumstances resulted in an increased penalty? i

Docket Entries

2020-01-13
Petition DENIED.
2019-12-19
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/10/2020.
2019-12-12
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2019-11-27
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due January 3, 2020)

Attorneys

Thomas Holcombe
Robin SmithLaw Office of Robin C. Smith, Esq., P.C., Petitioner
United States
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent