No. 18-8899

Eric Richard Eleson v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden, et al.

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-04-18
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: constitutional-interpretation due-process due-process-equal-protection equal-protection federal-statute judicial-discretion legal-definition non-violent-offense-classification penal-code-definition reasonable-jurist-standard state-constitution-interpretation state-federal-judge-duties state-law supremacy-clause violent-felony
Key Terms:
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Latest Conference: 2019-06-20
Question Presented (from Petition)

Does the U.S. Constitution's Supremacy Clause (Article VI, §2) require the Judge(s) (both State & Federal) within STATE OF CALIFORNIA (as well as an other State) to follow an established "legal definition" (within a Federal Statute 'made in pursuance thereof') where NO such "legal definition" of said 'term' exists in the State's Law?

Does CALIFORNIA PENAL CODE (CPC) §667.5(c? "legally 'define" the term, "Violent Felony?" or, Is CPC §667.5(c) a 'legal definition" of the term, "Violent Felony" (since, by its own words "For the purpose of this section" it only applies to one Penal Code section?

Are the State (and Federal) Jude(s) within STATE OF CALIFORNIA required to utilize an established Federal 'definition" (or its opposite) when a new State Constitutional provision using an "undefined term" is created?

Do the Judge(s) (both State & Federal) within STATE OF CALIFORNIA violate Each's Oath of Office (& Canon #3), as well as Petitioner's Right to Due Process & Equal Protection of the Law, when Each FAILS& REFUSES to follow and abide by the U.S. Constitution's Supremacy Clause and the established Federal definition of "Violent Felony" (18 USC §924(e)(2)(B)), and now, the definition of "Crime of Violence" (18 USC §16 - See: Sessions v. Diyama, 2018 US LEXIS 2497), when they Fail & Refuse to acknowledge the, ipso facto, "Non-Violent" Statutory 'elements' of Petitioner's offenses which is within the purview of the 'newly created State Constitutional provision (Article I, §321 CA Constitution, "non-violent" felony offenses)? "txpressio/Inclusio unius est, exclusio alterius." = "The expression/inclusion of one, is the exclusion of the other."

Are the "Jurist(s)" who decided U.S. V. Sherbondy, 865 F.2d 996, 1010-1011 (9th Cir. Cal. 1988) and others who cited said case (ie: U.S. v. Parker, Taylor v. U.S., U.S. v. Chatman, Pazcoguin v. Radcliffe, Singh v. Ashcroft, U.S. v. Ladwig, U.S. v. Piccolo, U.S. v. Mi Kyung Byuri, Delgado-Hernandez v. Holder, Shepherd v. U. S., In re Christopher H., Hicks v. Feiock, & In re Lance W., Supra.), "reasonable jurists who would find it debateable that the State Courts' Judge's refusal to follow the U.S. Constitution's Supremacy Clause,"only a State Law Issue?"

Does the inclusion of Statutory (Elements) "Non-Violent" offenses within an alleged "List" of alleged "Violent" offenses, violate Petitioner's Federal Constitutional Right to Due Process and Equal Protection of the Law in the light of the newly enacted State Ctitutional provision?

Does the FAILURE & REFUSAL of the Judges in STATE OF CALIFORNIA (both State and FederiT) to adj CfC the

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does the U.S. Constitution's Supremacy Clause require judges to follow a federal statute's legal definition even if the state law lacks such a definition?

Docket Entries

2019-06-24
Petition DENIED.
2019-06-05
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/20/2019.
2018-07-27
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due May 20, 2019)

Attorneys

Eric Richard Eleson
Eric Richard Eleson — Petitioner