No. 22-6849

Salvatore Pelullo v. United States

Lower Court: Third Circuit
Docketed: 2023-02-23
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: 2nd-amendment bruen-decision civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-power felon-dispossession second-amendment speedy-trial standing
Latest Conference: 2023-03-17
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Whether Congress has the power to dispossess
citizens of their Second Amendment right to keep and
bear arms based on a citizen's non-violent felony
conviction.

2. Whether an "open-ended continuance" violates a
defendant's Sixth Amendment constitutional and
statutory speedy trial rights.

3. Whether, in light of this Court's decision in
Bruen and the Third Circuit's decision to grant en banc
rehearing in Range v. Attorney General United States, this
Court should exercise its GVR power and remand this
matter to the Third Circuit.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether Congress has the power to dispossess citizens of their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms based on a citizen's non-violent felony conviction

Docket Entries

2023-03-20
Petition DENIED.
2023-03-02
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/17/2023.
2023-02-27
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2023-02-21
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 27, 2023)
2023-01-19
Application (22A561) granted by Justice Alito extending the time to file until February 19, 2023.
2023-01-11
Application (22A561) to extend further the time from January 20, 2023 to February 19, 2023, submitted to Justice Alito.
2022-12-21
Application (22A561) granted by Justice Alito extending the time to file until January 20, 2023.
2022-12-07
Application (22A561) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from December 21, 2022 to February 19, 2023, submitted to Justice Alito.

Attorneys

Salvatore Pelullo
Troy A ArchieAfonso Archie Law P.C., Petitioner
United States
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent