No. 18-9515

Brandon Christopher Pierre v. United States

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-06-06
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights conviction-and-sentencing criminal-procedure due-process false-arrest false-imprisonment federal-jurisdiction malicious-prosecution probable-cause
Latest Conference: 2019-10-01
Question Presented (from Petition)

Under the "color of law", the United States District Court for the Eastern of Texas (Beaumont Division) falsely and wrongfully indicted, arrested, imprisoned, convicted and sentenced me, Brandon Christopher Pierre, beginning on September 4, 2015. The initial incident stemmed from a class A misdormeanor incident committed in Beaumont, Texas in which the U.S.D.C. for the Eastern District of Texas (Beaumont Division) By law, the incident at bar has no probable cause relation or affect to municipal ordinance MD-5876-13 of Allentown, Pennsylvania, in which to trigger violation of federal statute 18 U.S.C. § 922 (g) (8) at bar.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Under what circumstances can a federal court falsely and wrongfully indict, arrest, imprison, convict, and sentence an individual under the 'color of law'?

Docket Entries

2019-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2019-06-20
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
2019-06-13
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2019-04-25
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due July 8, 2019)

Attorneys

Brandon Pierre
Brandon Pierre — Petitioner
United States
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent