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Muhanad Elfatih M. A. Badawi v. United States

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 16-50392 · judgment March 18, 2020

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 graphic evidence of terrorism, admitted without the balancing test required by Fed. R. Evid. 403 and Old Chief v. United States, 519 U.S. 172, 180 (1997), should have been excluded at Petitioner’s trial for providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization. --prefix--

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Timothy Allen Scott
McKenzie Scott PC

For respondent
Jeffrey B. Wall
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

Case

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

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Order
Order list, October 5, 2020 · Certiorari denied

Proceedings

  1. Oct 05 2020
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Aug 19 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2020.
  3. Aug 12 2020
    Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
  4. Jul 31 2020
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 8, 2020)