No. 24-6815

Tanner Lance King v. United States

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2025-03-20
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: §2255-claim appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-error ineffective-assistance plea-negotiation
Key Terms:
HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2025-04-17
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Fifth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability for a §2255 claim of ineffective assistance of counsel during plea negotiations was irreconcilable with controlling precedent

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

Whether the Fifth Circuit ’s denial of a certificate of appealability, where the district court erred or alternatively abused its discretion by denying Mr. King's §2255 claim that counsel was constitutionally ineffective during the plea negotiation stage because the record did not conclusively negate the factual predicates for the claim, and because no evidentiary hearing was held is irreconcilable with controlling precedent, such that this Court should remand to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit with instructions to issue a certificate of appealability?

Docket Entries

2025-04-21
Petition DENIED.
2025-03-27
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/17/2025.
2025-03-25
Waiver of United States of right to respond submitted.
2025-03-25
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2025-02-18
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 21, 2025)

Attorneys

Tanner L. King
Tanner Lance King — Petitioner
United States
D. John SauerSolicitor General, Respondent
Sarah M. HarrisActing Solicitor General, Respondent