No. 21-7973

In Re Roberto Villarreal

Lower Court: N/A
Docketed: 2022-05-25
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: 4th-amendment 5th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus liberty-interest marijuana-criminalization
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2022-06-16
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Supreme Court will grant a writ of habeas corpus to review the denial of a certificate of appealability for habeas relief

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED “The writ of habeas corpus is a high prerogative writ, known to the common law, the great object of which is the liberation of those who may be imprisoned without sufficient cause. Ex Parte Watkins, 28 U.S. 193, 202 (1830) Chief Justice Marshall. 1. Whether denied certificate of appealability for habeas relief from the District Court, has no other court to go to but here. 2. Whether the Supreme Court will comply with 4(b) and order a response to question presented, an Article III case and controversy. 3. THE QUESTION is whether being incarcerated a substantial denial, seizure, deprivation of Roberto Villarreal’s constitutional right of liberty, without “sufficient cause,” without compelling reasons for the United States Congress to proscribe, to criminalize marijuana as a dangerous substance, therefore without due process of law in violation of Amendments IV and V of the Constitution of the United States and unconstitutional. i

Docket Entries

2022-08-22
Rehearing DENIED.
2022-07-28
DISTRIBUTED.
2022-06-24
Petition for Rehearing filed.
2022-06-21
Petition DENIED.
2022-06-01
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/16/2022.
2022-04-13
Petition for writ of habeas corpus and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed.

Attorneys

Roberto Villarreal
Roberto Villarreal — Petitioner
Roberto Villarreal — Petitioner