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Adedayo Hakeem Sanusi v. United States
IFP petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 25-72 · judgment June 16, 2025
Questions presented
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Whether defense counsel renders constitutionally ineffective assistance under the Sixth Amendment when, for financial gain, he affirmatively lies to his client that a grand jury indictment has been returned thereby inducing waiver of the Fifth Amendment right to indictment and whether such a fundamental misrepresentation can ever be "cured by a routine plea colloquy.
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Whether a guilty plea is knowing and voluntary under the Due Process Clause where it rests upon a prosecutor's specific, off- the-record promise of a fully concurrent sentence a promise later disavowed at sentencing through reliance on a boilerplate "non-binding" clause in the written plea agreement.
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Whether due process Is violated when a prosecutor coerces a defendant to dismiss a pending appeal by threatening to bring additional, more severe charges if the appeal succeeds, thereby insulating constitutional errors at trial and sentencing from appellate review.
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Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying a certificate of appealability ("GOA") under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(e), thereby barring appellate review of substantial constitutional claims in conflict with Slack vs. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473,483 (2000), and Murray vs. United States, 579 U.S._, 596 (2016). 0CU2® | -i-
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Adedayo Hakeem Sanusi
For respondent
D. John Sauer
Solicitor General
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Dec 08 2025Petition DENIED.
- Nov 13 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/5/2025.
- Nov 07 2025Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
- Aug 22 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due November 24, 2025)