No. 24-6407
Samuel Tanel Crittenden v. United States
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 Stillinger — Attorney at Law, Petitioner
United States
Sarah M. Harris — Acting Solicitor General, Respondent