No. 19-6266
Willie Jones, Jr. v. United States
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: conflict-among-courts constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-procedure dilatory-conduct dilatory-purpose dilatory-purposes faretta-right faretta-v-california federal-courts self-representation sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-self-representation state-courts
Key Terms:
Environmental SocialSecurity Securities Immigration
Environmental SocialSecurity Securities Immigration
Latest Conference:
2019-11-08
Question Presented (from Petition)
Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's Faretta claim, which permitted the district court to deny it after determining that Petitioner had asserted it solely for dilatory purposes, conflict not only with Faretta itself, which had not enumerated that exception, but also opinions from at least one of its sister federal court of appeals and several state supreme courts?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's Faretta claim conflict with Faretta v. California?
Docket Entries
2019-11-12
Petition DENIED.
2019-10-24
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/8/2019.
2019-10-18
Waiver of right of respondent United States of America to respond filed.
2019-10-08
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due November 12, 2019)
Attorneys
United States of America
Noel J. Francisco — Solicitor General, Respondent
Willie Jones
David Andrew Schlesinger Jr. — Jacobs & Schlesinger LLP, Petitioner