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Vladislav Konstantin Aksenov v. United States
IFP petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 23-3825 · judgment June 11, 2025
Certiorari denied · October 14, 2025
Question presented
Do the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the government at trial from implicitly evoking stereotypes about a defendant’s racial or ethnic background by making repeated references to those matters when they are not relevant to any contested issue?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Margaret Alice-Anne Farrand
Federal Public Defender
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, October 14, 2025 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Oct 14 2025Petition DENIED.
- Sep 25 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/10/2025.
- Sep 23 2025Waiver of right of respondent United States of America to respond filed.
- Sep 02 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 6, 2025)