No. 20-7626

Robert Frank Miller v. United States

Lower Court: District of Columbia
Docketed: 2021-04-01
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: appellate-review appellate-standards criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion probable-cause waiver
Key Terms:
FourthAmendment CriminalProcedure HabeasCorpus Privacy JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2021-04-30
Question Presented (from Petition)

I.
Whether certiorari should be granted to clarify that probable cause must be
based on actual facts, rather than mere assumptions interposed by the court
during its review of those facts, and to clarify the proper appellate standards
for "waived" arguments?

II.
Whether certiorari should be granted to clarify that when ineffective
assistance of counsel causes a party to lose the right to even raise an issue on
appeal, that scenario should be treated in the same manner as when an appeal
is untimely filed because of ineffective assistance of counsel - i.e., since in both
situations no appeal was possible, with prejudice arising from the loss of the
right of appeal itself, the party should simply be afforded a new appeal, without
the need to prove before that appeal is even briefed that he would also surely
win that appeal on the merits?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether certiorari should be granted to clarify that probable cause must be based on actual facts, rather than mere assumptions interposed by the court during its review of those facts, and to clarify the proper appellate standards for 'waived' arguments

Docket Entries

2021-05-03
Petition DENIED. Justice Kavanaugh took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.
2021-04-15
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/30/2021.
2021-04-07
Waiver of right of respondent United States of America to respond filed.
2021-03-30
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due May 3, 2021)

Attorneys

Robert Miller
Gregory Stuart SmithLaw Office of Gregory S. Smith, Petitioner
United States of America
Elizabeth B. PrelogarActing Solicitor General, Respondent