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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: 1% 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

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

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)