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Quinn R. Turner v. United States

IFP petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, No. 24-5712 · judgment February 7, 2025


Certiorari denied · December 8, 2025

Question presented

QU ESTI ON (S) PRESENTED QUESTON NUMBER ONE; Whether Mr. Turner's due process of law rights of the Fifth Amendment U.S. Constitution were violated by the district court failing to adjudicate the merits of his Motion for Partial Disqualification in the first instance prior to presiding over the 2255 Proceedings ? QUESTION NUMBER TWO: Whether the district court abused its discretion by failing to conduct a prompt Evidentiary Hearing and the Sixth Circuit's affirmance as to Ground One, claim, thus, did his ex-trial counsel provide him with ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to conduct legal research and by failing to file a pre-trial Motion to Dismiss Fatally Defective Count 1, Conspiracy of the Second Superseding Indictment did this violate his Sixth Amendment rights of the U.S. Constitution ? QUESTION NUMBER THREE: Whether the district court abused its discretion by failing to conduct a prompt Evidentiary Hearing and the Sixth Circuit's affirmance as to Ground Two, thus, did his ex-trial counsel provide him with ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to object to the Constructive or Impermissible Amendment of the Second Superseding Indictment through Jury Instruction No. 16, did this violate his Sixth Amendment rights ?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Quinn R. Turner

For respondent
D. John Sauer
Solicitor General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Dec 08 2025
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Nov 19 2025
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/5/2025.
  3. Nov 12 2025
    Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
  4. Jul 17 2025
    Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 1, 2025)