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Olegario Lares-De La Rosa v. United States
IFP petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 23-1096 · judgment March 27, 2025
Question presented
Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 701 permits a law enforcement officer to provide a lay opinion about the meaning of ordinary language used in a recorded conversation the officer reviewed during case investigation but did not participate in or perceive contemporaneously, a question that has engendered an intractable circuit split.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Mary Edith Cunningham
Federal Public Defender's Office
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
Linked docket
25A332
Order
Order list, December 15, 2025 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Dec 15 2025Petition DENIED.
- Nov 26 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/12/2025.
- Nov 19 2025Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
- Nov 07 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 12, 2025)
- Sep 24 2025Application (25A332) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until November 7, 2025.
- Sep 19 2025Application (25A332) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from October 1, 2025 to November 7, 2025, submitted to Justice Kagan.