No. 18-9308

Clarence Scranage, Jr. v. United States

Lower Court: Fourth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-05-17
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP
Tags: 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights counsel-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment
Key Terms:
DueProcess FifthAmendment FourthAmendment Punishment
Latest Conference: 2020-01-10 (distributed 2 times)
Question Presented (from Petition)

Whether Petitioner waived his Fifth and Sixth Amendment Rights to Counsel, by being forced to represent himself by the lower Court, pro-se, without the benefit of counsel to represent him adequately, and sufficiently within the confines of the Fifth and Sixth Amendments of the United States Constitution?

Whether Petitioner's untainted substitute property was improperly restrained prior to trial restricting the Petitioner's choice of counsel, thereby deflecting funds needed to continue his preferred attorney's representation, for the purspose of reimbursing the court appointed attorney by means of cruel and unusual punishment violating the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether Petitioner waived his Fifth and Sixth Amendment Rights

Docket Entries

2020-01-13
Rehearing DENIED.
2019-12-04
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/10/2020.
2019-10-25
Petition for Rehearing filed.
2019-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2019-06-13
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
2019-06-03
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2019-04-24
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due June 17, 2019)

Attorneys

Clarence Scranage
Clarence Scranage Jr. — Petitioner
United States
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent