No. 22-6477

Claudius English, aka Jay Barnes, aka Brent English v. United States

Lower Court: Second Circuit
Docketed: 2023-01-06
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: conviction conviction-challenge due-process dunn-v-united-states fifth-amendment indictment indictment-theory interstate-commerce jury kidnapping-statute
Key Terms:
DueProcess FifthAmendment
Latest Conference: 2023-02-17
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the lower courts' affirmance of English's conviction on the basis of a theory not charged in the indictment or argued to the jury and advanced for the first time to the district court after trial violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment and this Court's holding in Dunn v. United States

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED Whether the lower courts’ affirmance of English’s conviction on the basis of a theory not charged in the indictment or argued to the jury and advanced for the first time to the district court after trial violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment and this Court’s holding in Dunn v. United States, 442 U.S. 100, 99 S.Ct. 2190, 60 L.Ed.2d 748 (1979) because the conviction could not have been sustained based on the legally insufficient theory charged in the indictment and argued to the jury. Whether an ambiguous text message sent to an alleged, unindicted coconspirator is sufficient to prove the “use” of an “instrumentality of interstate... commerce” in the commission of or in furtherance of the commission of kidnapping as proscribed by 18 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(1), and whether, if not, English’s conviction on Count Nine must be vacated because the Government’s evidence at trial failed to prove every element of the offense beyond a reasonable doubt in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment. i

Docket Entries

2023-02-21
Petition DENIED.
2023-01-19
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/17/2023.
2023-01-12
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2023-01-04
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due February 6, 2023)

Attorneys

Claudius English
Clara KalhousClara Kalhous, Esq, Petitioner
Clara KalhousClara Kalhous, Esq, Petitioner
United States
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent