No. 25-6090
Derrick Lorenzo Casey v. United States
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: armed-career-criminal charging-error fifth-amendment guilty-plea harmless-error structural-error
Latest Conference:
2025-12-12
Question Presented (from Petition)
I. Whether the failure to indict a defendant with the elements of an aggravated offense in violation of the Fifth Amendment is structural error.
II. Whether harmless error review of an Erlinger-based error in the guilty plea context requires assessing what a reasonable jury would have done or whether the proper inquiry is whether a defendant would have pleaded guilty to the aggravated offense.
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether a Fifth Amendment charging error for an aggravated offense is structural error and how harmless error review should be applied in the guilty plea context
Docket Entries
2025-12-15
Petition DENIED.
2025-11-26
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/12/2025.
2025-11-18
Waiver of United States of right to respond submitted.
2025-11-18
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2025-11-07
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 12, 2025)
2025-08-25
Application (25A203) granted by The Chief Justice extending the time to file until November 13, 2025.
2025-08-16
Application (25A203) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from September 14, 2025 to November 13, 2025, submitted to The Chief Justice.
Attorneys
Derrick Lorenzo Casey
Emily Deck Harrill — Fedearl Public Defender's Office, Petitioner
United States
D. John Sauer — Solicitor General, Respondent