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Edward Taupier v. Connecticut

Paid petition · Supreme Court of Connecticut, No. SC 19950 · judgment September 11, 2018

Certiorari denied · February 19, 2019
Pre-decision estimate: 5% cert probability

Before the decision, modestly above the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a circuit split argued in the petition, a petition filed soon after the judgment below, and counsel who has filed here before, and down for a state or local-government respondent.

Question presented

The questions presented in this petition are as follows: The first question presented is: Whether in a prosecution for speech under the “true threats” doctrine an objective standard of mere recklessness is sufficient to meet the scienter requirement. The second question presented is: Whether in a prosecution for speech under the “true threats” doctrine speech acts unknown to the person threatened shed any light on the state of mind of the party uttering the alleged threat.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Norman A. Pattis
Pattis & Smith, LLC

For respondent
Mitchell S. Brody
Chief State's Attorney's Office

Case

Subject area
First Amendment (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Order
Order list, February 19, 2019 · Certiorari denied

Proceedings

  1. Feb 19 2019
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jan 09 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/15/2019.
  3. Jan 02 2019
    Waiver of right of respondent Connecticut to respond filed.
  4. Dec 10 2018
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 11, 2019)