No. 19-7084

Andrew Haley Morcombe v. United States

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: 2019-12-30
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: affirmative-defense criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process fair-trial international-kidnapping international-parental-kidnapping jury-instructions state-law state-law-definitions statutory-interpretation
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2020-01-24
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the failure of 18 U.S.C. § 1204 to define 'domestic violence' violates due process and deprives defendants of a fair trial

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED I. Whether the failure of 18 U.S.C. § 1204, the International Parental Kidnapping statute, to define the term “domestic violence” for purposes of an affirmative defense set forth in the statute violates due process and deprives defendants of a fair trial when defendants assert the affirmative defense of fleeing an incidence or pattern of domestic violence because the statute’s failure to define domestic violence forces district courts to rely on varying state court definitions of that term when instructing a jury? ii

Docket Entries

2020-01-27
Petition DENIED.
2020-01-09
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/24/2020.
2020-01-06
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2019-12-12
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due January 29, 2020)

Attorneys

Andrew Morcombe
Bjorn Erik BrunvandBrunvand Wise PA, Petitioner
Bjorn Erik BrunvandBrunvand Wise PA, Petitioner
United States
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent