No. 19-6899

Jose Luis Meza-Lopez v. United States

Lower Court: Eighth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-12-10
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: concealment constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure cuellar-v-united-states due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel money-laundering transportation
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2020-01-10
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does the Court's holding in Cuellar v. United States require more than a finding of concealing something for transportation to show money laundering?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED I. Does the Court's holding in Cuellar v. United States, Require more than a finding of concealing something for transportation to show money laundering; If so was Meza's counsel ineffective for advising him to plead guilty to that charge, although Meza did not know or admit to knowing the funds were concealed for the purpose of hiding that they were obtained illegally and the factual basis of guilt was no sufficient? ; II. Is a guilty plea voluntary when counsel coerce a defendant into pleading guilty based on the false claim that by pleading OS guilty he would avoid a consequence that would occur iff he went to trial and lost; If so was Meza's counsel ineffective for coercing him to do so? . : | 3 . : .

Docket Entries

2020-01-13
Petition DENIED.
2019-12-23
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/10/2020.
2019-12-17
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2019-10-14
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due January 9, 2020)

Attorneys

Jose L. Meza-Lopez
Jose Luis Meza-Lopez — Petitioner
Jose Luis Meza-Lopez — Petitioner
United States
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent