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Steven M. Hohn v. United States
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, No. 22-3009 · judgment December 16, 2024
Certiorari denied · October 14, 2025
Pre-decision estimate: 3% cert probability
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
Whether a prosecutor’s intentional, unjustified intrusion into a defendant’s attorney-client communications violates the Sixth Amendment without a showing of discrete, trial-specific prejudice. (I)
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Kannon K. Shanmugam
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
For respondent
D. John Sauer
Solicitor General
Proceedings
- Oct 14 2025Petition DENIED.
- Sep 24 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/10/2025.
- Sep 24 2025Reply of petitioner Steven M. Hohn filed. (Distributed)
- Sep 04 2025Brief of respondent United States in opposition filed.
- Jul 08 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including September 4, 2025.
- Jul 07 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response from July 18, 2025 to September 4, 2025, submitted to The Clerk.
- Jun 04 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including July 18, 2025.
- Jun 03 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response from June 18, 2025 to July 18, 2025, submitted to The Clerk.
- May 19 2025Brief amicus curiae of Due Process Institute filed.
- May 19 2025Brief amici curiae of Criminal Law and Ethics Professors filed.
- May 19 2025Brief amicus curiae of The Cato Institute filed.
- May 19 2025Brief amici curiae of Current and Former Federal and State Prosecutors filed.
- May 15 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including June 18, 2025.
- May 14 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response from May 19, 2025 to June 18, 2025, submitted to The Clerk.
- May 02 2025Brief amici curiae of Tenth Circuit Federal Public Defenders filed.
- Apr 15 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due May 19, 2025)
- Feb 24 2025Application (24A755) granted by Justice Gorsuch extending the time to file until April 15, 2025.
- Jan 31 2025Application (24A755) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from March 16, 2025 to May 15, 2025, submitted to Justice Gorsuch.