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James Kerr Schlosser v. United States

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, No. 17-2872 · judgment January 30, 2019


Certiorari denied · December 9, 2019
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

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

Questions presented

  1. Whether the lower courts erred regarding the denied evidence, violating the defendant’s constitutional right to a complete defense, if the evidence denied would have better shown the jury the defendants “willfulness” “reasonableness” and “state of mind” at the time of the alleged crime, proving that the defendant had no mens rea?

  2. When the Appellate Court instruction is vague regarding the District Court improperly ordering restitution as a penalty due immediately absence of statutory authority, and it damaged the appellant, what can be done to correct it?

  3. Should the DOJ lawfully absolve the IRS, Prosecutors? or Judges? who seemingly have no accountability, and flagrantly twist, distort and mock a defendant’s religious beliefs at trial, then weaponized those miss-stated beliefs in the media, leaving the slandered appellant indefensible?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
James Kerr Schlosser

For respondent
Noel John Francisco
Jones Day

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Linked docket
19A165

Proceedings

  1. Dec 09 2019
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Nov 13 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/6/2019.
  3. Nov 04 2019
    Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
  4. Oct 18 2019
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 21, 2019)
  5. Aug 15 2019
    Application (19A165) granted by Justice Alito extending the time to file until October 18, 2019.
  6. Aug 06 2019
    Application (19A165) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from August 19, 2019 to October 18, 2019, submitted to Justice Alito.