No. 21-7309

Jaime Calderon, aka Jaime Arredonde, aka Jaime Rene Calderon v. United States

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2022-03-08
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: civil-rights daubert-standard due-process evidence expert-testimony gatekeeping-function judicial-reliability kumho-tire law-enforcement law-enforcement-experts reliability
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Latest Conference: 2022-04-01
Question Presented (from Petition)

Whether district courts, serving as Daubert/Kumho Tire gatekeepers, have a duty to assess the reliability of law enforcement officers testifying as experience-based experts, rather than rely on their qualifications alone, before allowing them the wide latitude afforded to experts testifying to a jury?

Whether Congress violated the Commerce Clause and the Tenth Amendment when it criminalized purely intrastate drug transactions on the basis that at some historic point, those drugs had crossed state lines?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether district courts have a duty to assess the reliability of law enforcement officers testifying as experience-based experts

Docket Entries

2022-04-04
Petition DENIED.
2022-03-17
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/1/2022.
2022-03-11
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2022-03-03
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 7, 2022)

Attorneys

Jaime Calderon
Donna Lee ElmLaw Practice of Donna Elm, Petitioner
United States
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent