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Albert S. N. Hee v. United States

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 19-15170 · judgment July 19, 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.

Question presented

It is fundamental that the constitutional right of due process is violated when the Principal Government Agent lies by fabricating evidence in order to initiate a criminal prosecution, yet that is exactly what the Government did in my case. Agents with the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) fabricated evidence against me that was used to justify referral of my civil audit to the IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division (“CID”). The Federal Circuit Courts have uniformly held that a criminal prosecution based on a Government’s agent fabricating evidence violates substantive Consti­ tutional Due Process. The Hawaii District Court and Ninth Circuit violated “the laws of the circuit” and stare decisis when deciding my Habeas Corpus Motion and Petition for a Certificate of Appealability. This court should resolve the issue by granting certiorari to firmly establish a constitutional right not to be prosecuted based on fabricated evidence by the government. The Question Presented Is: Does the Doctrine of Stare Decisis require the Federal Courts to follow its prior Circuit Decisions of substantive constitutional rights although this court has not ruled on the issue?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Albert S. N. Hee

For respondent
Noel John Francisco
Jones Day

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Dec 09 2019
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Nov 20 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/6/2019.
  3. Nov 13 2019
    Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
  4. Oct 17 2019
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 25, 2019)