No. 25-5008

Stephen T. Aguiar v. United States

Lower Court: Second Circuit
Docketed: 2025-07-02
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: circuit-court-review coram-nobis due-process factual-innocence medical-evidence sentencing-guidelines
Key Terms:
HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2025-09-29
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Second Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of petitioner's claims despite evidence of factual innocence, new medical evidence, and an 18-year delay in filing coram nobis claims

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

1. DESPITE THE RECORD SHOWING THAT PETITIONER IS FACTUALLY INNOCENT OF DISTRIBUTING MORPHINE, DID THE SECOND CIRCUIT ERR IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S FINAL JUDGMENT TO DENY PETITIONER'S CLAIM? 2. DID THE SECOND CIRCUIT ERR BY DISCOUNTING PETITIONER'S NEW EVIDENCE OF HIS 2010-DIAGN0SED TRAUMATIC INJURY CALLING INTO QUESTION HIS 1994-1995 MENTAL COMPETENCY WITHOUT AN EVIDENTIARY HEARING AND INSTEAD AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S RULING TO DENY PETITIONER'S CLAIMS BASED ON AN OVERLAPPING 18 YEAR DELAY? ~ 3. DID THE SECOND CIRCUIT ERR BY AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S ADVERSE JUDGMENT BASED ON PETITIONER'S 18 YEAR DELAY IN FILING HIS CORAM NOBIS CLAIMS WITHOUT CONSIDERING THAT HIS CHALLENGE TO HIS 1995 DISTRIBUTION OF MORPHINE CONVICTION COULD NOT HAVE ACCRUED UNTIL -2014 AT WHICH TIME PETITIONER'S DRUG CONSPIRACY CASE CONVICTION BECAME FINAL AND ONLY THEN COULD PETITIONER SATISFY ALL THREE REQUISITE PRONGS OF THE CORAM NOBIS REMEDY? 4. DID THE SECOND CIRCUIT ERR BY FAILING-TO FULLY ADDRESS OR RESOLVE EACH OF PETITIONER'S RAISED CLAIMS BELOW? 5. DESPITE PETITIONER HAVING EXPUNGED.HIS PRIOR STATE CONVICTIONS DRASTICALLY REDUCING HIS 1995-IMPOSED MANDATORY GUIDELINES SENTENCE, DID THE SECOND CIRCUIT ERR BY FAILING?TO CONSIDER WHETHER PETITIONER'S SENTENCE SHOULD BE REDUCED? ii

Docket Entries

2025-10-06
Petition DENIED.
2025-07-17
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2025.
2025-07-11
Waiver of United States of right to respond submitted.
2025-07-11
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2025-06-27
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 1, 2025)
2025-06-17
Application (24A1226) granted by Justice Sotomayor extending the time to file until July 9, 2025.
2025-05-28
Application (24A1226) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from June 9, 2025 to July 9, 2025, submitted to Justice Sotomayor.

Attorneys

Stephen Aguiar
Stephen Aguiar — Petitioner
Stephen Aguiar — Petitioner
United States
D. John SauerSolicitor General, Respondent
D. John SauerSolicitor General, Respondent
Moez Mansoor KabaHueston Hennigan LLP, Respondent