No. 21-785

Richard Riccardi v. United States

Lower Court: Second Circuit
Docketed: 2021-11-29
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: burden-of-establishing-exception collateral-review legal-theory procedural-default retroactive-effect substantive-change substantive-change-of-law supreme-court-precedent yates-v-united-states
Latest Conference: 2022-01-07
Question Presented (from Petition)

Whether the exception to the procedural default
rule of Yates v United States, 354 U.S. 298 (1957)
applies where this Court has held declared a theory of
law invalid and given the invalid theory retroactive
effect on collateral review of judgments, because it falls
within a substantive change of law and not procedural.

Did the Second Circuit err in determining petitioner
did not meet the burden of establishing an exception to
the procedural rule, precluding collateral review of the
verdict after this Court's decisions in Johnson v United
States , 576 U.S. 591 (2015) and United States v. Davis ,
588 U.S. ___ (2019).

Whether Petitioner's § 924 convictions must be set
aside because the general verdict form fails to show
whether those convictions were premised on the
charged Hobbs Act robbery conspiracy, which is not a
valid predicate, or in the perpetration of a robbery,
which would be a valid predicate.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the exception to the procedural default rule of Yates v United States, 354 U.S. 298 (1957) applies

Docket Entries

2022-01-10
Petition DENIED.
2021-12-08
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/7/2022.
2021-12-03
Waiver of right of respondent United States of America to respond filed.
2021-11-22
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 29, 2021)

Attorneys

Richard Riccardi
Eric NelsonEric Nelson, Esq, Petitioner
United States of America
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent