No. 24-6407

Samuel Tanel Crittenden v. United States

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2025-01-28
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit jury-instruction sufficiency-of-evidence
Latest Conference: 2025-02-21
Question Presented (from Petition)

Should a conviction be reversed and remanded for a new trial where the district court erroneously fails to give a lesser-included offense instruction, regardless of whether there was sufficient evidence to find guilt on the greater offense, so long as a jury could rationally convict on the lesser offense and acquit on the greater offense?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a conviction should be reversed and remanded for a new trial when a district court erroneously fails to give a jury instruction, despite sufficient evidence of guilt

Docket Entries

2025-02-24
Petition DENIED.
2025-02-06
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/21/2025.
2025-01-31
Waiver of United States of right to respond submitted.
2025-01-31
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2025-01-23
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due February 27, 2025)

Attorneys

Samuel Crittenden
Mary StillingerAttorney at Law, Petitioner
United States
Sarah M. HarrisActing Solicitor General, Respondent