No. 20-6390

Rigoberto Cabrera v. United States

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: 2020-11-19
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel loss-amount prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-error witness-testimony
Latest Conference: 2021-01-08
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Whether Cabrera made a sufficient showing that he received
ineffective assistance of counsel as a result of his counsel's
failure to challenge the loss amount at sentencing to entitle him
to an evidentiary hearing and/or Certificate of Appealability?

2. Whether Cabrera made a sufficient showing that he received
ineffective assistance of counsel due to counsel's failure to
clarify the received date of the return on Count 2 and establish
Cabrera could not have prepared or filed it to entitle him to an
evidentiary hearing and/or Certificate of Appealability?

3. Whether Cabrera made a sufficient showing that the govern
ment violated his Due Process by twisting and manipulating witness
testimony to confuse and mislead the jury to entitle him to an
evidentiary hearing and/or Certificate of Appealability?

4. Whether the Magistrate's failure to inform that she had
been a prosecutor in Cabrera's case and her failure to recuse herviolated Cabrera's Due self from the proceedings tainted them,
Process and introduced structural error all of which requires the
reversal of the district court's denial of his claims?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether Cabrera received ineffective assistance of counsel

Docket Entries

2021-01-11
Petition DENIED.
2020-12-10
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/8/2021.
2020-12-02
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2020-11-05
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 21, 2020)

Attorneys

Rigoberto Cabrera
Rigoberto Cabrera — Petitioner
United States
Jeffrey B. WallActing Solicitor General, Respondent