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Paul Winfield v. United States Probation & Pretrial Services, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 18-60807 · judgment June 24, 2020

Certiorari denied · January 11, 2021
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

Since 18 U.S.C.A. § 666 is even broader than other federal bribery statutes, does it suffer from the same constitutional infirmities of vagueness and overbreadth as this Court found in the application of another bribery statute, 18 U.S.C.A. § 201, in McDonnell v. U.S., 136 S.Ct. 2355 (2016)?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Graham Patrick Carner
Carner & Rosemon, PLLC

For respondent
Jeffrey B. Wall
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Jan 11 2021
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Dec 16 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/8/2021.
  3. Dec 09 2020
    Waiver of right of respondent United States Probation & Pretrial Services to respond filed.
  4. Nov 20 2020
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 28, 2020)