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Angel M. Ayala-Vazquez v. United States

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, No. 18-2171 · judgment November 22, 2019


Certiorari denied · October 5, 2020
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 lower courts so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, or sanctioned such a departure by a lower court, as to call for an exercise of this Court’s supervisory power when they circumvented the standard of review for issuing a certificate of appealability as interpreted by this Court in Welch v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 1257, 1264 (2016) and Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322, 338 (2003).

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Brian Jude White

For respondent
Jeffrey B. Wall
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 05 2020
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jun 17 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2020.
  3. Jun 15 2020
    Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
  4. May 29 2020
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 13, 2020)