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George Little, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. v. Samuel Randolph
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, No. 20-9003 · judgment July 20, 2021
Before the decision, about 3.5× the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a state or local-government petitioner, a Third Circuit decision below, and a circuit split argued in the petition.
Question presented
Whether this Honorable Court should grant review to decide an important question of federal law—whether a criminal defendant can forfeit or waive his or her Sixth Amendment right to counsel of choice by not alerting the trial court of his or her intention to retain new counsel until shortly before trial begins after repeated defense continuances—that has not been, but should be, settled by this Honorable Court?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Francis T. Chardo
Dauphin County D.A. Office
For respondent
Jennifer Louise Chiccarino
Federal Community Defender for the EDPA
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, April 4, 2022 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Apr 04 2022Motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed by respondent GRANTED.
- Apr 04 2022Petition DENIED.
- Mar 16 2022DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/1/2022.
- Feb 28 2022Brief of respondent Samuel Randolph in opposition filed.
- Feb 28 2022Motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed by respondent Samuel Randolph.
- Jan 19 2022Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including February 28, 2022.
- Jan 18 2022Motion to extend the time to file a response from January 28, 2022 to February 28, 2022, submitted to The Clerk.
- Dec 17 2021Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 28, 2022)