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Leevan Roundtree v. Wisconsin

Paid petition · Supreme Court of Wisconsin, No. 2018AP594-CR · judgment January 7, 2021


Certiorari denied · October 4, 2021
Pre-decision estimate: 3% cert probability

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

Questions presented

  1. Whether a non-violent felon may bring an asapplied challenge to a state law that permanently denies Second Amendment rights to anyone convicted of a crime denominated as a felony.

  2. Whether, in adjudicating a non-violent felon’s as-applied challenge to a state dispossession law, the reviewing court may uphold the law without analyzing the particular non-violent felony of which the challenger was convicted.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Frederick Richard Yarger
Wheeler Trigg O'Donnell LLP

For respondent
Sarah Lynn Burgundy
Wisconsin Department of Justice

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Amicus briefs
1 cert-stage

Proceedings

  1. Oct 04 2021
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Aug 27 2021
    Reply of petitioner Leevan Roundtree filed. (Distributed)
  3. Aug 25 2021
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/27/2021.
  4. Aug 09 2021
    Brief of respondent State of Wisconsin in opposition filed.
  5. Jul 09 2021
    Brief amici curiae of Firearms Policy Coalition and Firearms Policy Foundation filed.
  6. Jul 01 2021
    Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including August 9, 2021.
  7. Jun 30 2021
    Motion to extend the time to file a response from July 9, 2021 to August 9, 2021, submitted to The Clerk.
  8. Jun 04 2021
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 9, 2021)