No. 24-7289

Fidel Saldana Rodriguez v. United States

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2025-05-27
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP Experienced Counsel
Tags: appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-conviction evidence-sufficiency inference-standard reasonable-doubt
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2025-06-26
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether evidence that requires a series of inferences to reach an element of an offense, rather than showing the element directly or after a single inference, is sufficient to support a conviction under the beyond a-reasonable-doubt standard

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

Whether evidence that requires a series of inferences to reach an element of an offense, rather than showing the element directly or after a single inference, is sufficient to support a conviction under the beyond a-reasonable -doubt standard.

Docket Entries

2025-06-30
Petition DENIED.
2025-06-11
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/26/2025.
2025-06-05
Waiver of United States of right to respond submitted.
2025-06-05
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2025-05-20
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due June 26, 2025)

Attorneys

Fidel Saldana Rodriguez
Philip J. LynchLaw Offices of Phil Lynch, Petitioner
United States
D. John SauerSolicitor General, Respondent