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Michael D. Smith v. Frances Catron Cadle, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, No. 21-5370 · judgment November 18, 2021


Certiorari denied · April 25, 2022
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

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

Question presented

Will the government officials of the Eastern District of Kentucky and state officials be allowed to violate our federal laws,Constitution and Bill of Rights and have a 5 week, mock trial on innocent people, filled with nothing but prosecutorial and judicial misconduct, creating a crime that was not there, forced the jury to vote guilty, after holding it for about 18 hours, in a hot room, with a government agent on the jury, after the grand jury returned a NO BILL OF INDICTMENT, the court had NO JURISDICTION OR AUTHORITY to have a trial or touch anyone, and sentence innocent people to prison for 10 years, to cover it all up, and have complete impunity for their criminal actions.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Michael Smith

For respondent
Elizabeth B. Prelogar
Solicitor General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Apr 25 2022
    Petition DENIED. Justice Kagan took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.
  2. Apr 06 2022
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/22/2022.
  3. Mar 30 2022
    Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
  4. Feb 16 2022
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due April 1, 2022)