No. 21-7063

Salahudin Shaheed v. United States

Lower Court: Third Circuit
Docketed: 2022-02-04
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-introduction due-process exculpatory-defense legal-standard plea-bargaining sentencing sexual-misconduct standing
Latest Conference: 2022-03-04
Question Presented (from Petition)

Has thousands of people been wrongfully convicted by Courts of law, facts (drug introduction into correctional institutions) and "illicit sex acts)" in the presence of women and "children" in light at the fact the lower Courts has "deem" both alarming forms of conduct to be "non-criminal"?

(1) Are the lower Courts properly using its "physical facts" when it declares drug introduction into a correctional institution and illicit sex acts)?

(3) Can a lower Courts ruling, that misapplied the correct legal standard (i.e. the criteria at above questions) deprive a defendant of exculpatory defense, thereby becoming Undue Influence "in the guilty plea entry context?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the lower courts have properly used their 'physical force' when declaring certain conduct, such as 'drug introduction' and 'illicit sex acts' in the presence of women and children, as 'non-criminal'

Docket Entries

2022-03-07
Petition DENIED.
2022-02-17
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/4/2022.
2022-02-09
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2022-01-10
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 7, 2022)

Attorneys

Salahudin Shaheed
Salahudin Shaheed — Petitioner
United States
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent