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Satyasheel S. Korpe v. United States
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, No. 25-4039 · judgment June 17, 2025
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Questions presented
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Does the Sixth Amendment and Article III, Section 2, Clause 3 of the Constitution, guarantee a defendant charged with Driving While Intoxicated the right to a jury trial even when he faces only up to six months imprisonment?
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Does the Sixth Amendment and Article III, Section 2, Clause 3 of the Constitution, guarantee a defendant charged with Driving While Intoxicated the right to a jury trial when he faces up to six months imprisonment and standard probationary conditions, which include loss of his Second Amendment right for a year?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Chris Leibig
Law Office of Christopher Leibig
For respondent
D. John Sauer
Solicitor General
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, November 10, 2025 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Nov 10 2025Petition DENIED.
- Oct 08 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/7/2025.
- Sep 30 2025Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
- Sep 15 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 22, 2025)