No. 21-7424

Ismael Ruiz v. Wyoming

Lower Court: Wyoming
Docketed: 2022-03-22
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP
Tags: civil-rights due-process federalism state-sovereignty supremacy-clause unconstitutional
Key Terms:
DueProcess JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2022-06-23 (distributed 2 times)
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Can a State within the United States choose which federal laws and Constitutional provisions it wants to honor and which ones it does not want to comply with?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED 1. Can a State within the United States choose which federal laws and Constitutional provisions it wants to honor and which ones it does not want to comply with? 2. Can a State within the United States establish laws that violate the United States Constitution as well as the State’s constitution? 3. Cana State within the United States choose to ignore the rulings of and show contempt for the United States Supreme Court? 4. Are state officials above the law; and can they state “I Don’t Care What The Law Says” and “That Doesn’t Apply To Us” while still receiving immunity from the Courts when | litigants attempt to gain redress? 5. Cana State within the United States create laws that eliminate due process or render court rulings that violate due process? | 6. Does Actual Innocence, with Evidence Definitively Confirming that Actual Innocence Divest the Trial Court of Jurisdiction to Render a Conviction? 7, Cana State within the United States deny or block a litigant access to the courts? 8. Cana State’s Court System deny an individual the Constitutional and God-Given-Right to : protect one’s self against the illegal use of deadly physical force by an attacker who is mentally unstable due to the illicit use of stolen prescription drugs? 9. Can a State within the United States, which has a self-defense law, deny a litigant the legitimate use of that self-defense law as a defense in his criminal prosecution? 10. Can the Wyoming Supreme Court ignore its own precedents and court rules to provide the State Attorney General an unfair advantage such as refusing to recognize the State has conceded a filing by failing/refusing to contest and/or respond to it. 11. Can a State within the United States deny a defendant an appeal based upon the unconstitutional actions of a State Employee who works for the Public Defender’s Office (or that State’s equivalent)? 12. If counsel provides a defendant with inaccurate information, can the defendant be held accountable for counsel’s inaccurate information and be denied his right to a direct appeal? 13. Does an irreconcilable conflict of interest result in a constructive denial of counsel that divests the trial court of jurisdiction to proceed any further in the case? 14. Ifacomplainant files to have the case “quashed” because the charges are erroneous can the State Court continue the case to a conviction via coerced guilty plea without allowing the defendant his Constitutional Right to Confront the Witnesses against him because there is no longer a witness against him; and prevent him from learning that the alleged complainant admitted the charges were based upon lies? , } ,

Docket Entries

2022-06-27
Rehearing DENIED.
2022-06-07
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/23/2022.
2022-05-05
Petition for Rehearing filed.
2022-04-25
Petition DENIED.
2022-04-07
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/22/2022.
2022-03-31
Waiver of right of respondent The State of Wyoming to respond filed.
2022-02-03
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 21, 2022)

Attorneys

Ismael Ruiz
Ismael Ruiz — Petitioner
The State of Wyoming
Jenny Lynn CraigOffice of the Wyoming Attorney General, Respondent