No. 21-5485

Yamilet Diaz v. United States

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: 2021-08-25
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: anti-kickback conspiracy criminal-liability due-process federal-health-care government-burden-of-proof intended-victim jury-instructions medicare-fraud
Key Terms:
SocialSecurity DueProcess FifthAmendment JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2021-10-08
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether jury instructions control the validity of a conviction rather than case law

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED FOR REVIEW I. Whether jury instructions, which require that the government prove a defendant knew the crimes were against the United States and involved a federal health care program, control the validity of a conviction rather than case law holding the government is not required to allege the United States was the intended victim under the offense clause of a §371 conspiracy. II. Whether a defendant, who merely sells beneficiary information to a provider who violates the Anti-Kickback provisions of its agreement with Medicare, can be found guilty as a co-conspirator of that provider where the defendant does not engage in any other illegal acts with that provider. i

Docket Entries

2021-10-12
Petition DENIED.
2021-09-16
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/8/2021.
2021-09-09
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2021-08-23
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 24, 2021)

Attorneys

United States
Brian H. FletcherActing Solicitor General, Respondent
Yamilet Diaz
Martin A. Feigenbaum — Petitioner