No. 21-6029

Daronnie Thompkins v. United States

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2021-10-20
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: bank-robbery coercion criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency firearm-enhancement interrogation interrogation-tactics involuntary-statements self-incrimination sentencing
Key Terms:
FifthAmendment
Latest Conference: 2021-11-12
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether Thompkins' incriminating statements were involuntary and should have been suppressed

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED Whether Thompkins’ incriminating statements were involuntary and should have been suppressed, where the interrogating officer: suggested that Thompkins’ remaining silent could result in a harsher sentence, threatened to tell the judge that Thompkins wouldn't cooperate, implied that things would get worse for Thompkins if he waited to speak with a lawyer, and exerted relentless pressure about Thompkins’ children. Whether there was insufficient evidence to support Thompkins' conviction for armed bank robbery as opposed to insider bank larceny, where the district court found that the plan was that codefendant Toyrieon Sessions was supposed to come into the bank and meet codefendant Iris Lester, a bank employee, who would take Sessions to the bank vault, give him the money in the vault, and let him out of the bank before anyone else knew that he had been at the bank. Whether the government met its burden of proving that a firearm was used in the offense, where Thompkins was not present during the offense, and where the district court found that the plan was that codefendant Sessions was supposed to come into the bank and meet codefendant Lester, a bank employee, who would take Sessions to the bank vault, give him the money in the vault, and let him out of the bank before anyone else knew that he had been at the bank. i Statement of

Docket Entries

2021-11-15
Petition DENIED.
2021-10-28
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/12/2021.
2021-10-25
Waiver of right of respondent United States of America to respond filed.
2021-10-18
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due November 19, 2021)

Attorneys

Daronnie Thompkins
Kathryn Ann YoungOffice of the Federal Public Defender, Petitioner
Kathryn Ann YoungOffice of the Federal Public Defender, Petitioner
United States of America
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent