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Robert James Rainey v. Colorado

Paid petition · Court of Appeals of Colorado, No. 17CA1133 · judgment December 7, 2023


Certiorari denied · November 12, 2024
Pre-decision estimate: 4% cert probability

Before the decision, roughly the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for counsel who has won certiorari before and a circuit split argued in the petition, and down for a state or local-government respondent.

Question presented

Whether, once counsel has been appointed for an indigent defendant, the Sixth Amendment guarantees the defendant the same right to continued representation by that counsel as is enjoyed by defendants affluent enough to retain counsel. The same question is presented in Davis v. Colorado, No. 23-1096, pet. for cert. filed Apr. 5, 2024.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Stuart Banner
UCLA School of Law Supreme Court Clinic

For respondent
Jillian Joy Price
Colorado Attorney General's Office

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Linked docket
24A63

Proceedings

  1. Nov 12 2024
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Oct 23 2024
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/8/2024.
  3. Oct 18 2024
    Waiver of right of respondent Colorado to respond filed.
  4. Oct 02 2024
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 18, 2024)
  5. Jul 18 2024
    Application (24A63) granted by Justice Gorsuch extending the time to file until October 8, 2024.
  6. Jul 15 2024
    Application (24A63) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from September 8, 2024 to November 7, 2024, submitted to Justice Gorsuch.