No. 19-7277

Dora Moreira v. United States

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: 2020-01-15
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: certificate-of-appealability due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fine ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct question-not-identified section-2255 sixth-amendment
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2020-02-28
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Court of Appeals created an irreconcilable conflict with precedential decisions by denying a certificate of appealability on a motion to vacate sentence claiming ineffective assistance of counsel, bias, and prosecutorial misconduct

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED . 1-) IN A DEPARTURE FROM THE DUE PROCESS REQUIREMENT .OF THE FIFTH AMENDMENT AND THE COMPULSORY PROCESS PROTECTION | OF THE SIX AMENDMENT, DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF . APPEALS FOR THE ELEVEN CIRCUIT CREATE AN IRRECONCILABLE ; CONFLICT WITH PRECEDENTIAL DECISIONS OF THIS COURT AND OTHER COURTS OF APPEALS BY DENYING THE CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY IN THE APPEAL OF THE DISTRICT COURT ORDER OF DENIAL MOVANT MOTION UNDER 28 U.S.C §2255 TO VACATE, : SET ASIDE, OR CORRECT HER SENTENCE CLAIMING-UNFAIR TRIAL DUE TO INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL, BIAS DISTRICT ; COURT, BAD?FAITH AND PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT? 2-) DOES THE COURT OF APPEALS' DECISION CONFLICT WITH . DECISIONS OF THIS COURT AND OTHER CIRCUITS COURT ON THE _ IMPORTANT QUESTION OF WHETHER THE LOWER COURTS APPLIED THE CORRECT LEGAL STANDARD IN THE MONEY LAUNDERING CON-. VICTION AND SENTENCE IN THIS CASE THATIT WAS QBTAINED WITH UNCONSTITUTIONAL INDICTMENT AND THE °SENTENCE™. VIOLATED THE EIGHT AMENDMENT'S EXCESSIVE FINE GLAUSE?.

Docket Entries

2020-03-02
Petition DENIED.
2020-02-13
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/28/2020.
2020-02-05
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2019-09-26
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due February 14, 2020)

Attorneys

Dora Moreira
Dora Moreira — Petitioner
Dora Moreira — Petitioner
United States
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent