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Ulric Jones v. United States

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, No. 17-3443 · judgment February 11, 2019


Certiorari denied · June 17, 2019
Pre-decision estimate: 2% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings as to call for an exercise of this Court’s supervisory power or has decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with relevant decisions of this Court such as a criminal defendant’s right to retained counsel as set forth in the Sixth Amendment and Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit – in taking the petitioner’s counsel’s right to practice before the appellate court based upon a non-related civil case – interfered with petitioner’s continued representation by said counsel, thereby, violating petitioner’s Sixth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
John Horace Davis
Attorney John H. Davis

For respondent
Noel John Francisco
Jones Day

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Jun 17 2019
    Petition DENIED.
  2. May 28 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/13/2019.
  3. May 22 2019
    Waiver of right of respondent UNITED STATES OF AMERICA to respond filed.
  4. May 13 2019
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 17, 2019)