No. 19-7978

Ramon Delgado, aka Ramon Delgado-Pina v. United States

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2020-03-12
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: administrative-law affection-influence civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process foreign-nationals foreign-relations security-clearance sentencing uncharged-conduct vagueness
Key Terms:
SocialSecurity Securities Immigration
Latest Conference: 2020-05-01
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Was the security clearance questionnaire unconstitutionally vague?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

Questions Presented First, was it unconstitutionally vague to ask Petitioner in a security clearance questionnaire to name the foreign nationals with whom Petitioner had a close and continuing relationship bonded by affection, influence, common interests and obligations without further defining those terms? Second, Witte v. United States, 515 U.S. 389, 115 S. Ct. 2199 (1995), and United States v. Watts, 519 U.S. 148, 117 8. Ct. 633 (1997), allow district courts to punish defendants for uncharged conduct that aggravates the manner of commission of the offense of conviction; do they allow a district court to aggravate the sentence even when the prior criminal conduct has nothing to do with the manner of the commission of the instant offense?

Docket Entries

2020-05-04
Petition DENIED.
2020-04-16
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/1/2020.
2020-04-10
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2020-03-03
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 13, 2020)

Attorneys

United States
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent