No. 19-7478

Daniel Pye v. United States

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: 2020-01-29
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP Experienced Counsel
Tags: brady-v-maryland civil-rights due-process false-testimony giglio-v-united-states government-disclosure-obligations napue-v-illinois
Key Terms:
DueProcess Immigration JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2020-02-28
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a federal agent's assurance to Haitian-citizen witnesses constituted a 'promise or offer' under Brady-Giglio-Napue

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED FOR REVIEW 1. Whether a federal agent’s assurance that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations would “look into what we can do” for the government’s Haitian-citizen witnesses after the trial, made for the express purpose of securing their testimony, was a “promise or offer’ within the purview of Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), Giglio v. United States, 405 U.S. 150 (1972), and Napue v. Illinois, 360 U.S. 264 (1959). 2. Whether, as the First, Second, Third, Fifth, and D.C. Circuits hold, the Constitutional prohibition against the prosecutorial use of false testimony encompasses testimony that is technically true but substantially misleading; or whether, as Eleventh and Sixth Circuits have held, Due Process is not violated unless the testimony is “literally” and “indisputably” false. i INTERESTED PARTIES AND RELATED PROECEDINGS There are no

Docket Entries

2020-03-02
Petition DENIED.
2020-02-13
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/28/2020.
2020-02-10
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2020-01-27
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due February 28, 2020)
2019-11-15
Application (19A537) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until January 25, 2020.
2019-11-12
Application (19A537) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from November 26, 2019 to January 25, 2020, submitted to Justice Thomas.

Attorneys

Daniel Pye
Tracy M. DreispulFederal Public Defender Southern District of Florida, Petitioner
Tracy M. DreispulFederal Public Defender Southern District of Florida, Petitioner
United States
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent