official-restraint

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
19-8733 Petrona Gaspar-Miguel v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-06-17 Denied IFP border-crossing criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process immigration-law law-enforcement-surveillance official-restraint statutory-interpretation Whether constant surveillance by a law enforcement agent is 'official restraint' that prevents an 'entry' and thus a conviction for 'entry without ins…
18-7103 Rene Garcia-Montejo, aka Bibian Garcia-Montejo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-law due-process found-in-doctrine illegal-entry immigration-authorities immigration-law official-restraint official-restraint-doctrine statutory-interpretation surveillance Whether the 'official restraint' doctrine precludes the possibility that a defendant can be illegally 'found in' the United States, for purposes of Ti…