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Richard Blake Howard v. United States
IFP petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 23-40299 · judgment August 19, 2025
Question presented
I. SHOULD THIS COURT RECONSIDER ITS DECISION IN MANRIQUE V. UNITED STATES, 581 U.S. 116, 122–23 (2017), HOLDING THAT A DISTRICT COURT'S INITIAL JUDGMENT AND ITS SUBSEQUENT RESTITUTION ORDER CONSTITUTE SEPARATE JUDGMENTS AND A DEFENDANT’S NOTICE OF APPEAL FROM A JUDGMENT DOES NOT FUNCTION AS A NOTICE OF APPEAL FROM THE RESTITUTION ORDER ? II. DID THE DISTRICT COURT PLAINLY AND REVERSIBLY ERR WHEN IT ORDERED MR. HOWARD TO PAY RESTITUTION ?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Amy Ruth Blalock
Blalock Law Firm
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
Order
Order list, January 20, 2026 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Jan 20 2026Petition DENIED.
- Dec 31 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/16/2026.
- Dec 18 2025Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
- Nov 17 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 26, 2025)