No. 23A866

Nicholas Newman v. United States

Lower Court: Tenth Circuit
Docketed: 2024-03-28
Status: Presumed Complete
Type: A
Experienced Counsel
Tags: assault-statute collateral-attack-waiver federal-officer mens-rea plea-agreement recklessness
Key Terms:
HabeasCorpus JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a federal assault statute under 18 U.S.C. § 111 can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness rather than intentional conduct

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

1. Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether assault against a federal officer under 18 U.S.C. $111 can be committed with a mens rea of recklessness (or, instead, requires the government to prove intentionality), when the statute provides that assault against a federal officer can be committed by means of “simple assault,” when numerous other federal assault crimes require mere recklessness, when the United States has taken the position for more than four decades that the best reading of the statute is that it can be committed recklessly, and when no controlling Tenth Circuit precedent forecloses that construction of the statute. 2. Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether a collateral attack waiver in a plea agreement is unenforceable when it would prevent a habeas petitioner from obtaining habeas relief from a crime of which he is actually innocent, when the Fourth Circuit has repeatedly held that collateral attack waivers are unenforceable in such cases, and no controlling Tenth Circuit precedent forecloses such a holding.

Docket Entries

2024-04-25
Application (23A866) for a certificate of appealability is denied without prejudice to the filing of a petition for a writ of certiorari seeking review of the December 8, 2023 decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, case No. 23-3120. See <i>Hohn</i> v. <i>United States</i>, 524 U. S. 236 (1998).
2024-04-19
Reply of applicant Nicholas Newman filed.
2024-04-17
Response to application from respondent United States of America filed.
2024-04-02
Response to application (23A866) requested by Justice Gorsuch, due by 4 p.m., on Wednesday, April 17, 2024.
2024-03-26
Application (23A866) for a certificate of appealability, submitted to Justice Gorsuch.

Attorneys

Nicholas Newman
Andrew Timothy TuttArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, Petitioner
Andrew Timothy TuttArnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, Petitioner
United States of America
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent