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Max Julian Wright v. United States
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, No. 16-3292 · judgment August 8, 2017
Before the decision, modestly above the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a circuit split argued in the petition, an Eighth Circuit decision below, and a petition citing one or two dissents.
Question presented
I. Whether the Sixth Amendment right to confrontation is violated where the trial court prevents a defendant from cross-examining a government witness regarding the mandatory life sentence he would have faced absent cooperation in order to prevent the jury from inferring the defendant’s likely life sentence.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Beau B. Brindley
The Law Offices of Beau B. Brindley
For respondent
Noel John Francisco
Jones Day
Case
Subject area
Criminal Procedure (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences
Linked docket
17A510
Order
Order list, May 21, 2018 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- May 21 2018Petition DENIED.
- May 14 2018DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/17/2018.
- Apr 18 2018DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/10/2018.
- Apr 18 2018Reply of petitioner Max Julian Wright filed. (Distributed)
- Mar 29 2018Brief of respondent United States in opposition filed.
- Feb 23 2018Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including March 30, 2018.
- Feb 22 2018Motion to extend the time to file a response from February 28, 2018 to March 30, 2018, submitted to The Clerk.
- Nov 13 2017Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 28, 2018)
- Nov 08 2017Application (17A510) granted by Justice Gorsuch extending the time to file until November 13, 2017.
- Nov 06 2017Application (17A510) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from November 6, 2017 to November 13, 2017, submitted to Justice Gorsuch.