Federal Judiciary

New Filing: Burkey v. Marberry

By Akin Gump Supreme Court Practice Group

Today the Stanford Law School Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, along with Akin Gump and Howe & Russell, filed this cert. petition in Burkey v. Marberry. At issue in the case is whether a prisoner’s challenge to his continued detention is mooted by his release when a judgment in his favor would establish that he was incarcerated beyond the proper expiration of his prison term, thereby supporting a claim for reduction in his term of supervised release. I am counsel of record and clinic students Martine Cicconi, Jake Heller, and Rakesh Kilaru ably assisted in the preparation of the petition.

Full post as published by SCOTUSBLOG on May 15, 2009 (boomark / email).