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Hakim Bey v. John Rivello, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, No. 20-3136 · judgment July 12, 2021

Certiorari denied · February 28, 2022
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

Whether a jury instruction is unconstitutional if there is a reasonable likelihood that the jury understood it to allow conviction without proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Enid W. Harris
Suite 700

For respondent
Nancy Winkelman
District Attorney's Office

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Feb 28 2022
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Feb 09 2022
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/25/2022.
  3. Feb 02 2022
    Waiver of right of respondent John Rivello, Supt. Huntingdon SCI; District Attorney of Philadelphia; Attorney General of Pennsylvania to respond filed.
    Main Document
  4. Nov 11 2021
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 14, 2022)
    PetitionCertificate of Word CountProof of Service