No. 20-7663

Andre Watson v. United States

Lower Court: Sixth Circuit
Docketed: 2021-04-06
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: commerce-clause constitutional-power criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce jurisdictional-hook murder-for-hire tenth-amendment
Key Terms:
FourthAmendment Privacy JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2021-04-30
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Did the United States, under our federal-state jurisdiction as set out in our Constitution, fail to establish Watson was properly guilty of Use of Interstate Commerce Facilities in the Commission of Murder-for-Hire under Count 1 where the only 'jurisdictional hook' was the use of the ubiquitous cell phone as part of the criminal scheme?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED FOR REVIEW Question I. Did the United States, under our federal-state jurisdiction as set out in our Constitution, fail to establish Watson was properly guilty of Use of Interstate Commerce Facilities in the Commission of Murder-for-Hire under Count 1 where the only “jurisdictional hook” was the use of the ubiquitous cell phone as part of the criminal scheme? If this assertion of Commerce Clause jurisdiction through a ubiquitous and pervasive personal technology is appropriate, doesn’t this provide for limitless federal power and the evisceration of the Tenth Amendment and its reservations of powers to the states? 2 LIST OF ALL

Docket Entries

2021-05-03
Petition DENIED.
2021-04-15
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/30/2021.
2021-04-09
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2021-04-01
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due May 6, 2021)

Attorneys

Andre Watson
Michael Martin Losavio — Petitioner
United States
Elizabeth B. PrelogarActing Solicitor General, Respondent