No. 23-6980

Matthew Murphy v. United States

Lower Court: First Circuit
Docketed: 2024-03-15
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: bias constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea prosecutorial-bias recusal sixth-amendment structural-error
Latest Conference: 2024-04-12
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Whether This Court Should Grant This Petition Because The Failure To Exclude The United States District Attorney's Office For the District of Massachusetts For Bias Violated Mr. Murphy's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment Rights.

2. Whether Mr. Murphy Did Not Waive The Bias Argument By Pleading Guilty Where A Biased Prosecution Is A Structural Error.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

whether-this-court-should-grant-this-petition

Docket Entries

2024-04-15
Petition DENIED.
2024-03-28
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/12/2024.
2024-03-20
Waiver of right of respondent United States of Americ to respond filed.
2024-03-11
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 15, 2024)

Attorneys

Matthew Murphy
Karen Ann PickettPickett Law Offices, PC, Petitioner
United States of Americ
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent