No. 24-5999

Juan Manuel Cruzado Laureano v. United States Attorney's Office, District of Puerto Rico

Lower Court: First Circuit
Docketed: 2024-11-19
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP
Tags: civil-rights-complaint criminal-conviction doj-waiver federal-procedure solicitor-general-resignation supreme-court-review
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Latest Conference: 2025-03-28 (distributed 2 times)
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a criminal conviction can be invalidated when the Solicitor General resigns and the Department of Justice waives its right to defend the conviction

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED WAS CRIMINAL CONVICTION #01-690(JAF) OF JUNE 7, 2002 INVALIDATED WHEN SOLICITOR GENERAL ELIZABETH B. PRELOGAR RES/GNED ON JANUARY 26, 2022 TO ANSWER THE CHALLENGE TO SAID CONVICTION CONTAINED IN CERTIORARI #21-6910 OF THE FEDERAL SUPREME COURT, RELYING ON IN RULE 15(1)(2) OF THIS ONE? ; SUMMARY OF ARGUMENTS ON THE QUESTION SUBMITTED Historic and unprecedented WAIVER of the Federal Department of Justice to defend conviction #01-690(JAF) of June 7, 2002 challenged in Certiorari #21-6910 . , IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES CRUZADOLAUREANO, JUAN MANUAL . a vs. Ne: 2126810 w. STEPHEN MULDROW . The Government hereby wuives its right to file a response to the petition in this casc, uniess requested to do se by the Court. ELIZABETH B. PRELOGAR. Solicitor Gencral Cnn at Beware January 26, 2022 JUAN MANUAL CRUZALDO, LAUREANO PO BOX 405 VEGA ALTA, PR, 00692 . On April 19, 2022, 84 days after the Federal Department of Justice presented its WAIVER to defend the challenge to the legal validity of conviction #01-690(JAF) of June 7,2002 against the Petitioner made in Certiorari #21-6910, it was filed Complaint #221181(MAJ) against the Office of US Attorney of PR. The Complaint #22-1181 makes a financial claim for Violation of the Petitioner’s Civil Rights under “Biven Action Law”. This Complaint #22-1181 is for the professional misconduct of the then US Attorney of PR Guillermo Gil Bonar and his main assistant AUSA Rebecca Kellogg indicated in Certiorari #21-6910 by the Petitioner, which the Federal Department of Justice WAIVED on January 26, 2022 to respond based on Rule 15(1)(2) of the Federal Supreme Court. The Government's first response to Complaint #22-1181 was to request its summary ; dismissal under Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6) and that the Court classified the Petitioner as a “vexatious litigant”. The Court did not heed the Government’s request and ordered it to respond to Complaint #22-1181. After having requested three extensions of time to respond to Complaint #22-1181, the Government, on the deadline to respond, once again submitted the Motion to Dismiss with the request to declare the Petitioner . a “vexatious litigant”, which was honored by the Court in June 2023. On August 31, .2023, Petitioner filed Appeal #23-1640 with the First Circuit where he requested reversal of the Judgment issued in Complaint #22-1181. The Government after having been granted 4 extensions of time that include over 110 days to file their Opposition Brief to Appeal #23-1640, decide to file on the deadline of February 7, 2024 a Motion to Dismiss the Appeal. In the Motion the Government argues that the Supreme Court in the Case Heck v. Humprey established that a conviction must be invalidated for . a financial claim to proceed and in the case of the Appellant there is no such invalidation and therefore the Complaint must be dismissed. Appeal #23-1640 was dismissed in the Order of Court of August 19, 2024 where the requested Rehearing is denied. IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES JUAN M. CRUZADO-LAUREANO No. Petitioner-Pro-Se . , On Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit Case#23-1640 Vs. US ATTORNEY’S OFFICE FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO Respondent

Docket Entries

2025-03-31
Rehearing DENIED.
2025-03-12
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/28/2025.
2025-02-05
Petition for Rehearing filed.
2025-01-13
Petition DENIED.
2024-12-26
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/10/2025.
2024-12-13
Waiver of U.S. Attorney's Office Dist. PR of right to respond submitted.
2024-12-13
Waiver of right of respondent U.S. Attorney's Office Dist. PR to respond filed.
2024-11-14
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 19, 2024)

Attorneys

Juan M. Cruzado-Laureano
Juan M. Cruzado Laureano — Petitioner
U.S. Attorney's Office Dist. PR
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent