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United States v. Saleem Hakim
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, No. 19-11970 · judgment April 14, 2022
Before the decision, about 10.3× the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a federal-government petitioner, counsel who has won certiorari before, and an Eleventh Circuit decision below.
Question presented
Whether a defendant’s erroneous pretrial selfrepresentation categorically constitutes structural error, thereby requiring automatic vacatur of the convictions, where the defendant had counsel at trial and did not irretrievably lose any rights or defenses in the interim. (I)
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Elizabeth B. Prelogar
Solicitor General
For respondent
Traci L. Lovitt
Jones Day
Case
Subject area
Criminal Procedure (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Linked docket
22A275
Order
Order list, February 21, 2023 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Feb 21 2023Petition DENIED.
- Feb 01 2023DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/17/2023.
- Jan 31 2023Reply of petitioner United States filed.
- Jan 17 2023Brief of respondent Saleem Hakim in opposition filed.
- Nov 23 2022Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including January 17, 2022.
- Nov 22 2022Motion to extend the time to file a response from December 16, 2022 to January 17, 2023, submitted to The Clerk.
- Nov 14 2022Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 16, 2022)
- Nov 07 2022Application (22A275) denied by Justice Thomas.
- Nov 03 2022Application (22A275) to extend further the time from November 14, 2022 to December 12, 2022, submitted to Justice Thomas.
- Sep 30 2022Application (22A275) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until November 14, 2022.
- Sep 29 2022Application (22A275) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from October 13, 2022 to November 12, 2022, submitted to Justice Thomas.