No. 25-5116

Mark Ellis v. United States

Lower Court: Sixth Circuit
Docketed: 2025-07-15
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence-sufficiency firearm-possession reasonable-doubt
Key Terms:
DueProcess Privacy
Latest Conference: 2025-09-29
Question Presented (from Petition)

I. DUE PROCESS REQUIRES SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE TO ALLOW A RATIONAL JURY TO FIND GUILT BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT. WHERE THE EVIDENCE THAT A FIREARM WAS POSSESSED IN FURTHERANCE OF A DRUG TRAFFICKING CRIME WAS BASED ON SPECULATION AND CONJECTURE INSTEAD OF RATIONAL INFERENCES, MUST THE CONVICTION FOR COUNT 4 BE VACATED?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a conviction must be vacated when evidence of firearm possession in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime is based on speculation and conjecture instead of rational inferences

Docket Entries

2025-10-06
Petition DENIED.
2025-07-24
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2025.
2025-07-22
Waiver of United States of right to respond submitted.
2025-07-22
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2025-07-07
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 14, 2025)

Attorneys

Mark Ellis
James Nicholas BosticBostic & Associates, Petitioner
United States
D. John SauerSolicitor General, Respondent