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Christopher J. Rahaim v. Bruce Bartlett, Individually and in His Official Capacity as State Attorney for the Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida, et al.

IFP petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, No. 24-14175 · judgment June 10, 2025


Certiorari denied · January 26, 2026

Questions presented

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  1. Should the unsettled issue in Heck v. Humphrey and Spencer v. Kenma^where this court has not definitively ruled that criminal defendants may use a §1983 lawsuit for evidence suppression when the accused has exhausted all state remedies, a habeas petition is not an adequate remedy, and the accused has been irreparably injured by bad faith concealment of evidence needed to show fraud and unlawful arbitrary detention?

  2. Do established laws protect and prevent the indefinite suppression of public records that show fraudulent prosecutions of non-existent crimes, impeachability of all prosecution witnesses, an insufficiency of evidence to sustain any conviction and the lack of any lawful authority by non-elected, appointed judges and prosecutors to perpetrate and conceal unconstitutional processes facilitating extrinsic fraud and false imprisonment?

  3. Do established Federal and International laws enforce the right to a fair, speedy trial and correct the deprivation of that right, perpetrated through trickery, deceit, extrinsic fraud, depriving face to face confrontation, material evidence of impeachability and actual innocence?

  4. Does the deprivation of self-representation/access to courts, with the purpose of preventing challenges to rights violations, entitle the victim, through established law, to review of the disqualified challenges and or dismissal of criminal charges and release from custody?

  5. Does established law protect an enforce rights violated through vague, ambiguous, conflicting state legislation, non-elected appointed officials and prolonged ex-parte influence/inadmissible evidentiary support and arguments?

  6. Is this court obligated to revisit, under stare decisis, impact of actuality, highest level of controversy, the internal constitutional conflict between the 9th and 14th Amendments for vague and ambiguous wording in the 9th Amendment, violating International law, when the application results in arbitrary detention perpetrated by non-elected, appointed judges and assistant prosecutors falsely claiming a lawful authority?

  7. Does the manifest disregard of established laws and rights, through intentional plain errors and the abuses of discretion, by federal appellate and district judges, require the

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Christopher J. Rahaim

For respondent

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Linked docket
25A263, 25A579

Proceedings

  1. Aug 17 2026
    Rehearing DENIED.
  2. Jul 23 2026
    DISTRIBUTED.
  3. Feb 20 2026
    Petition for Rehearing filed.
  4. Jan 26 2026
    Petition DENIED.
  5. Jan 08 2026
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/23/2026.
  6. Nov 18 2025
    Application (25A579) to file petition for a writ of certiorari in excess of page limits granted by Justice Thomas. The petition for a writ of certiorari may not exceed 53 pages.
  7. Sep 09 2025
    Application (25A579) to file petition for a writ of certiorari in excess of page limits, submitted to Justice Thomas.
  8. Sep 09 2025
    Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 19, 2025)
  9. Sep 05 2025
    Application (25A263) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until October 8, 2025.
  10. Aug 22 2025
    Application (25A263) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from September 8, 2025 to November 7, 2025, submitted to Justice Thomas.