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Smith v. United States

Petition for certiorari denied on January 13, 2020

Docket No. Op. Below Argument Opinion Vote Author Term
19-361 11th Cir. N/A N/A N/A N/A OT 2019

Issue: (1) Whether the government makes a good-faith effort to obtain a witness"s presence at trial if it curtails its search for that witness because it already has the witness"s deposition testimony; (2) whether the government makes a good-faith effort to obtain a witness"s presence at trial if it forgoes an "easy" investigative step that it has "reason to believe" would procure the absent witness; and (3) whether a witness is "unavailable" if the government releases the witness from its custody without making any arrangements to secure the witness"s presence at trial.

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DateProceedings and Orders (key to color coding)
09/18/2019Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 18, 2019)
10/09/2019Motion to extend the time to file a response from October 18, 2019 to November 18, 2019, submitted to The Clerk.
10/10/2019Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including November 18, 2019.
10/10/2019Blanket Consent filed by Petitioner, Renado Smith, et al.
10/18/2019Brief amici curiae of Criminal Defense Organizations filed.
10/18/2019Brief amicus curiae of The Constitution Project at the Project On Government Oversight filed.
10/18/2019Brief amicus curiae of Florida Association for Criminal Defense Lawyers filed.
10/28/2019Motion to extend the time to file a response from November 18, 2019 to December 9, 2019, submitted to The Clerk.
10/29/2019Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including December 9, 2019.
12/09/2019Brief of respondent United States of America in opposition filed.
12/23/2019DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/10/2020.
12/23/2019Reply of petitioners Renado Smith, et al. filed. (Distributed)
01/13/2020Petition DENIED.