No. 19-8698

Neal Scott Stone v. United States

Lower Court: Sixth Circuit
Docketed: 2020-06-15
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: certificate-of-appealability circuit-split drug-trafficking due-process entrapment-defense habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-informant sixth-circuit
Latest Conference: 2020-09-29
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Does the Sixth Circuit's Amended Order, in which it denied Stone's COA Motion; conflict with Lozada v.Deeds, 498 U.S. 430 (199r)(per curiam) and progeny; when case laws establish that Stone's ineffective assistance of counsel claim is debatable among jurists of reason?

2. Is an entrapment defense viable as "the Seventh and D.C. Circuits held, when a police informant persistently induces' a defendant with a drug trafficking record to engage in a fake cocaine transaction after the defendant expressed his reluctance to.do so; or does a drug trafficking record along with some unrelated drug trafficking charges outweigh an informant's improper:inducements and a defendant's reluctance as the Sixth Circuit held?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

whether-the-sixth-circuit's-amended-order-conflicts-with-lozada-v-deeds

Docket Entries

2020-10-05
Petition DENIED.
2020-06-25
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2020.
2020-06-19
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2019-12-27
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due July 15, 2020)

Attorneys

Neal Scott Stone
Neal Scott Stone — Petitioner
United States
Jeffrey B. WallActing Solicitor General, Respondent