No. 24-5024

Timothy John Miers v. United States

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: 2024-07-10
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation double-jeopardy eleventh-circuit fifth-amendment miller-el-v-cockrell sentencing sentencing-authority separation-of-powers
Latest Conference: 2024-09-30
Question Presented (from Petition)

I. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has so far departed from established Federal Law [28 U.S.C, 2253(c)(2)] and the legal standards set out by this Court in MILLER-EL v COCKRELL. 537 US 322 (2003), when it denied an application for a Certificate of Appealability, which demonstrated the District Court exceeded its own authority when imposing cumulative punishments not authorized by Congress, in direct violation of the Fifth Amendment guarantee against Double Jeopardy and the Constitutional Principle of the Separation of Powers in regards to sentencing, and which was fully-supported by Jurists of reason from the directly-on-point controlling precedents of this Honorable Supreme Court in WHALEN v UNITED STATES. 445 US 684 (1980) and its progeny ?

II. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has decided an important Federal Question in a way that conflicts with the controlling decisions of this Court, when it decided the separate convictions and cumulative punishments imposed for both, the greater-compound-offense and its necessarily-included lesser-predicate-offense, without the Congressional Authority required. IS NOT in violation of the Fifth Amendment guarantee against Double Jeopardy OR the Constitutional Principle of the Separation of Powers in regards to sentencing, which is contrary to and in manifest violation of the directly-on-point controlling decisions of this Honorable Supreme Court found in : Ml WHALEN v,UNITED STATES, 445 US 684 (1980); (2) UNITED STATES v DIXON. 509 US 688 (1993); (3) BALL v UNITED STATES. 470 US 856 (1985); and (4) HARRIS V OKLAHOMA. 433 US 682 (1977) ?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has so far departed from established Federal Law and the legal standards set out by this Court in MILLER-EL v COCKRELL, 537 US 322 (2003), when it denied an application for a Certificate of Appealability, which demonstrated the District Court exceeded its own authority when imposing cumulative punishments not authorized by Congress, in direct violation of the Fifth Amendment guarantee against Double Jeopardy and the Constitutional Principle of the Separation of Powers in regards to sentencing

Docket Entries

2024-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2024-08-01
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/30/2024.
2024-07-29
Waiver of United States of right to respond submitted.
2024-07-29
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2024-04-03
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 9, 2024)

Attorneys

Timothy J. Miers
Timothy J. Miers — Petitioner
United States
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent