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Mark A. Beckham v. United States
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, No. 18-1406 · judgment March 8, 2019
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
Because only a jury, acting on proof beyond a reasonable doubt, may take a person’s liberty, when, if ever, is it constitutionally permissible for an appellate court to conclude that a district court’s refusal to instruct the jury as to two elements of a crime constitutes harmless error?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Justin Keith Gelfand
Marguils Gelfand LLC
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 1 conference
Linked docket
19A24
Order
Order list, January 13, 2020 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Jan 13 2020Petition DENIED.
- Dec 11 2019DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/10/2020.
- Dec 05 2019Reply of petitioner Mark Beckham filed.
- Nov 21 2019Brief of respondent United States of America in opposition filed.
- Oct 18 2019Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including November 21, 2019.
- Oct 17 2019Motion to extend the time to file a response from October 18, 2019 to November 21, 2019, submitted to The Clerk.
- Sep 11 2019Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including October 18, 2019.
- Sep 10 2019Motion to extend the time to file a response from September 18, 2019 to October 18, 2019, submitted to The Clerk.
- Aug 12 2019Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 18, 2019)
- Jul 03 2019Application (19A24) granted by Justice Gorsuch extending the time to file until August 13, 2019.
- Jun 28 2019Application (19A24) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from July 14, 2019 to August 14, 2019, submitted to Justice Gorsuch.