No. 22-5826

Alonzo Peters v. United States

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2022-10-14
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: brady-materiality brady-v-maryland conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process fifth-circuit kyles-v-whitley suppressed-evidence witness-testimony
Latest Conference: 2022-11-18
Related Cases: 22-5827 (Vide)
Question Presented (from Petition)

L. Whether a defendant's convictions for conspiracy and drug trafficking
conspiracy must be vacated where the defendant had no commercial
association with, nor interest in the enterprise, did not act on behalf of
the enterprise or in agreement to further enterprise objectives, and did
not act either alone or in concert with members of the enterprise for
purposes of participating in the enterprise or assisting in its objectives,
but only had personal contact with one of its members and who
committed offenses independently and separately of the enterprise and
its objectives.

I. Can the constitutional right to due process be protected when federal
courts regularly apply inconsistent and erroneous standards to
determining the materiality of suppressed evidence under Brady v.
Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), and Kyles v. Whitley, 514 U.S. 419 (1995)?

II. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit applied
an erroneous standard to assessing the materiality of a cooperating
witness's letter to an Orleans Parish Assistant District Attorney stating
that the entire case against the defendants is "made up of lies"?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a defendant's convictions for conspiracy and drug trafficking conspiracy must be vacated

Docket Entries

2022-11-21
Petition DENIED.
2022-11-03
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/18/2022.
2022-11-01
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2022-10-11
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due November 14, 2022)

Attorneys

Alonzo Peters
Nisha SandhuNisha Sandhu, APLC, Petitioner
United States
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent