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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


Certiorari denied · December 8, 2025

Questions presented

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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

  1. Dec 08 2025
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Nov 13 2025
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/5/2025.
  3. Nov 07 2025
    Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
  4. Aug 22 2025
    Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due November 24, 2025)