No. 19-95

Linda Bolton, et vir v. United States

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-07-18
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment government-misconduct grand-jury judicial-precedent perjured-testimony tax tax-prosecution
Latest Conference: 2019-10-01
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Whether tax prosecutions can be now be authorized by the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service for investigation by a grand jury and approved for prosecution instead of the Department of Justice as required by statute, creating a new and dangerous legal precedence, resulting in convictions and sentences including orders for terms of imprisonment in this case, that are neither supported by statute or prevailing case law?

2. Whether the convictions in this case, which are based on perjured witness testimony, can stand when that perjured testimony is directly related to suppression of evidence by the Government in violation of Maryland vs. Brady, and this court's ruling in Napue v. Illinois, 360 U.S. 264 [1959], and that would allow a criminal defendant to be convicted based on perjury that the prosecution fails to correct, and in violation of the Petitioners constitutional rights to due process under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution?

3. Whether the District Court can develop its own elements for tax evasion by mixing elements from multiple circuits which changes the required statutory elements and does not mirror Fifth Circuit elements for tax evasion just for Petitioner's case and bias Petitioners case by using different legal standards than other Petitioners in the Fifth Circuit violating Petitioners' rights to due Process under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution, and impacting tax evasion judicial proceedings for all circuits; and whether a conviction for Section 7206 (1) can stand when the government omitted a required statutory element for conviction from indictment and trial by omitting a "materiality" element, resulting in guilty jury verdict, and that the Fifth Circuit omitted from its opinion since the government omitted it, and violating Petitioners' Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution and creating a new and dangerous legal precedence for Section 7206 (1) cases?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether tax prosecutions can be authorized by the IRS Commissioner instead of the Department of Justice

Docket Entries

2019-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2019-08-14
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
2019-08-07
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2019-05-06
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 19, 2019)
2019-02-26
Application (18A864) granted by Justice Alito extending the time to file until May 6, 2019.
2019-02-25
Application (18A864) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from March 7, 2019 to May 6, 2019, submitted to Justice Alito.

Attorneys

Linda Bolton, et vir
Linda Bolton — Petitioner
United States
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent