No. 25-5122

Raheem Brown v. United States

Lower Court: Third Circuit
Docketed: 2025-07-16
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: criminal-procedure fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-testify sixth-amendment
Key Terms:
HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2025-09-29
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Is a criminal defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to testify and to receive a fair trial abridged where trial counsel interferes with the defendant's right to testify and makes prejudicial statements to the jury?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

Is a criminal defendant ’s Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to testify and to receive a fair trial abridged where trial counsel announces to the jury in opening remarks that defendant might testify, and then interferes with that right by not informing defendant that it was his constitutional right [decision] whether or not to testify, then refused to allow defendant to testify despite defendant ’s wishes, and then informing the jury in closing arguments that the defendant did not testify because “to put a less than highly educated young man against [the prosecutor], I was not going to do that? ”

Docket Entries

2025-10-06
Petition DENIED.
2025-07-24
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2025.
2025-07-22
Waiver of United States of right to respond submitted.
2025-07-22
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2025-07-07
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 15, 2025)

Attorneys

Raheem Brown
Raheem Brown — Petitioner
Raheem Brown — Petitioner
United States
D. John SauerSolicitor General, Respondent
D. John SauerSolicitor General, Respondent