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Joan Orie Melvin v. Stephen D. Zappala, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, No. 17-2143 · judgment January 14, 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

The question presented is whether a defendant’s rights under the Fifth Amendment as incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment are violated when she is charged and convicted of state crimes based on alleged deviation from a standard contained in an internal workplace rule rather than the charged offenses.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Patrick Aloysius Casey
Myers Brier & Kelly, LLP

For respondent
Ronald Michael Wabby Jr.
Allegheny County Dist. Atty.

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. Jul 29 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2020.
  3. Jul 24 2020
    Waiver of right of respondent Stephen D. Zappala, et al. to respond filed.
  4. Jul 20 2020
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 24, 2020)