Petition for Writ of Certiorari — Philip Alejandro Powers, III, Petitioner v. United States
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IN THE
Supreme Court of the United States
P HILIP A LEJANDRO P OWERS , III,
Petitioner,
vs.
U NITED S TATES OF A MERICA ,
Respondent.
On Petition for a Writ of Certiorari
to the United States Court of Appeals
for the Ninth Circuit
PETITION FOR A WRIT OF CERTIORARI
JON M. SANDS
Federal Public Defender
District of Arizona
* DANIEL L. KAPLAN
Assistant Federal Public Defender
250 North 7th Avenue, Suite 600
Phoenix, Arizona 85007
dan_kaplan@fd.org
(602) 382-2700
* Counsel of Record
QUESTION PRESENTED
Should a person who is compelled to commit a criminal act
in order to avert a greater evil be denied the protection of
the necessity defense if he could have committed the
criminal act in a “safer” manner?
RELATED PROCEEDINGS
United States District Court (D. Ariz.):
United States v. Powers, No. 21-mj-04310 (Feb. 13, 2023) (finding petitioner
guilty on all counts charged)
United States v. Powers, No. 23-cr-08027 (Sep. 12, 2023) (affirming in part, and
remanding in part, magistrate judge’s judgment)
United States Court of Appeals (9th Cir.):
United States v. Powers, No. 23-2218 (Feb. 24, 2025) (affirming convictions on
direct appeal); (Jun. 20, 2025) (denying petition for rehearing)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
Table of Authorities ....................................................................................................... ii
Opinions below ............................................................................................................... 1
Jurisdiction .................................................................................................................... 2
Statutory and Regulatory Provisions Involved ............................................................ 2
Statement of the Case ................................................................................................... 3
Reasons for granting the petition ................................................................................. 8
Conclusion .................................................................................................................... 16
Appendices:
App. A: Court of appeals opinion and judgment (Feb. 24, 2025)
App. B: District court order (Sep. 12, 2023)
App. C: Magistrate judge order (Feb. 13, 2023)
App. D: Court of appeals order denying rehearing (Jun. 20, 2025)
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TABLE OF AUTHORITIES
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Cases:
Baender v. Barnett, 255 U.S. 224 (1921) ........................................................... 9, 10, 14
Raich v. Gonzales, 500 F.3d 850 (9th Cir. 2007) .......................................................... 9
The Diana, 74 U.S. 354 (1868) ...................................................................................... 9
United States v. Ashton, 24 F. Cas. 873 (D. Mass. 1834) ............................................. 9
United States v. Bailey, 444 U.S. 394 (1980) .......................................................... 9, 11
United States v. Cruz, 554 F.3d 840 (9th Cir. 2009) .................................................. 10
United States v. Kirby, 74 U.S. 482 (1868) ................................................................... 9
United States v. Perdomo-Espana, 522 F.3d 983 (9th Cir. 2008) .............. 9, 11, 12, 13
United States v. Schoon, 971 F.2d 193 (9th Cir. 1991)......................... 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Statutes and rules:
18 U.S.C. § 1856 ......................................................................................................... 2, 6
28 U.S.C. § 1254(1) ........................................................................................................ 2
36 C.F.R. § 261.5(c) .................................................................................................... 3, 6
36 C.F.R. § 261.52(a).................................................................................................. 2, 6
Other:
2 Wayne R. LaFave, Subst. Crim. L. § 10.1(a) (3d ed., Westlaw through Oct.
2024 Update) .................................................................................................. 9, 10, 15
2 Wayne R. LaFave, Subst. Crim. L. § 10.1(d) (3d ed., Westlaw through Oct.
2024 Update) § 10.1(d) ............................................................................................. 10
2 Wayne R. LaFave, Subst. Crim. L. § 10.1(c) (3d ed., Westlaw through Oct.
2024 Update) § 10.1(c) .............................................................................................. 15
Model Penal Code and Commentaries, Art. 3, § 3.02 cmt. at 9 (1985) ................ 10, 14
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In the Supreme Court of the United States
N o.
P HILIP A LENDANDRO P OWERS , III, PETITIONER
v.
U NITED S TATES OF A MERICA
On Petition for a Writ of Certiorari
to the United States Court of Appeals
for the Ninth Circuit
PETITION FOR A WRIT OF CERTIORARI
Philip Alejandro Powers, III, respectfully petitions for a writ of certiorari to
review the judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in
this case.
OPINIONS BELOW
The opinion of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (App.
A) is reported at 129 F.4th 617. The order of the United States District Court for the
District of Arizona affirming in part and remanding in part the magistrate judge’s
judgment (App. B) is unreported, but is available at 2023 WL 5926442. The
magistrate judge’s order (App. C) is unreported.
JURISDICTION
The court of appeals issued its opinion on February 24, 2025, and denied
petitioner’s petition for rehearing on June 20, 2025. Apps. A, D. This Court has
jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1254(1). This petition is timely. See S. Ct. R. 13.
STATUTORY AND REGULATORY PROVISIONS INVOLVED
The statutory and regulatory provisions underlying petitioner’s convictions
are as follows:
18 U.S.C. § 1856
§ 1856. Fires left unattended and unextinguished
Whoever, having kindled or caused to be kindled, a fire in or near any
forest, timber, or other inflammable material upon any lands owned,
controlled or leased by, or under the partial, concurrent, or exclusive
jurisdiction of the United States, including lands under contract for
purchase or for the acquisition of which condemnation proceedings
have been instituted, and including any Indian reservation or lands
belonging to or occupied by any tribe or group of Indians under the
authority of the United States, or any Indian allotment while the title
to the same is held in trust by the United States, or while the same
shall remain inalienable by the allottee without the consent of the
United States, leaves said fire without totally extinguishing the same,
or permits or suffers said fire to burn or spread beyond his control, or
leaves or suffers said fire to burn unattended, shall be fined under this
title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
36 C.F.R. § 261.52(a)
§ 261.52 Fire.
When provided by an order, the following are prohibited:
(a) Building, maintaining, attending, or using a fire, campfire, or stove
fire.
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36 C.F.R. § 261.5(c)
§ 261.5 Fire.
The following are prohibited:
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(c) Causing timber, trees, slash, brush or grass to burn except as
authorized by permit.
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STATEMENT OF THE CASE
1. In May of 2018, 37-year-old IT technician Philip Powers drove to the
parking lot for the Dogie Trailhead, in northern Arizona’s Coconino National Forest,
intending to do a day-hike the next day. He parked and camped overnight, so he
could start his hike early in the morning to avoid some of the heat. He began his
hike around 6:00 to 6:30 a.m. the next morning.
Philip believed he was setting off on the Cabin Loop hike—a 17.8-mile
moderate-difficulty hike in a Ponderosa Pine Forest. In fact, he was beginning the
Taylor Cabin loop hike—an 18.8-mile, strenuous-difficulty, hard-to-navigate hike in
the “high desert” of the Sycamore Canyon Wilderness Area. Federal wilderness
areas are “free from mechanized use,” meaning there are no roads or vehicles. He
had a full three-liter water bladder, plus a 16-ounce bottle of water, for a total of
116 ounces of water, as well as mandarin oranges, a mango, and freeze-dried
granola.
Philip hiked to the Taylor Cabin, a small trailside shelter, looked around the
cabin for about ten minutes, then continued on the trail. He intended to complete
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the loop and return to the trailhead that day. But a few miles past the cabin the
trail ran into a wash, and he was unable to find where it resumed on the far side.
After searching for 30 to 40 minutes, Philip realized that “shit was getting real.” It
was 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. He had been hiking for about ten hours, and it was many
miles back to the car. He had seen no one else on the trail, and he was running low
on water. He hiked back to the Taylor Cabin.
He had only sixteen to twenty ounces of water left—not enough for the return
hike—and his only food was his mango and two mandarin oranges, as well as some
peanut butter, jelly, and coconut oil he found in the cabin. He tried to sleep, but his
legs were cramping so painfully that he got not more than an hour of rest.
Around 9:00 p.m., in his first effort to attract rescuers, Philip used his lighter
to ignite some dead grass. He knew the fire was prohibited, because he had seen nofire notices. This first fire, later named the Taylor Fire, went out overnight, never
spreading beyond a tenth of an acre.
The next morning, Philip ate his mango and mandarin oranges, and some
peanut butter and jelly he found in the cabin. He had sixteen to twenty ounces of
water. Before sunrise he started trying to hike back to the trailhead. It was hard to
get moving. He felt “spent.” His body was so depleted that every 200 yards he had to
stop, and sit in the shade for 20 minutes, before trying to continue. He ran out of
water. He drank his own urine. He made it only about three miles from Taylor
Cabin when he felt that he could not go on. He realized, “I am not making this. I am
done…. This is it.” But he had seen planes overhead, and again he thought he might
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save himself by setting a signal fire. He lit a second fire in a dead tree, hoping to
generate smoke. This was the fire that saved his life.
At the time, however, Philip thought that this second fire, which would later
be called the Sycamore Fire, was another dud. He waited about an hour, but the fire
appeared to be dying out. He decided he needed to move and try again. He
jettisoned his backpack and started back down the trail. He drank his own urine,
again.
After making it a few hundred yards, Philip saw a fixed-wing plane circling
the area of the second fire. About thirty to forty minutes later he saw a helicopter
circle the area. He cut off his orange underwear, put it on the end of his walking
stick, and waved it around, hoping to draw attention.
When that didn’t work, Philip lit a third fire. This fire, which would be called
the Sycamore 2 Fire, spread to a three-foot circle before going out. But the
firefighting team in the helicopter saw Philip lying under a tree as they landed to
address the Sycamore Fire. Recognizing that Philip was in distress, the firefighters
helped him into the helicopter and gave him water. As he was being rescued, Philip
looked back toward the second fire and realized that it had not gone out but had
grown, apparently fanned by the wind, and he thought, “Oh shit.” The Sycamore
Fire eventually grew to about 230 acres—a little over one-third of a square mile—
before it was contained.
The firefighting team flew Philip to Sedona, where they helped him walk
from the helicopter to a waiting ambulance. The ambulance crew inserted two fluid
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IVs, one in each arm. At the same time, a Forest Service Law Enforcement Officer
boarded the ambulance and asked Philip whether he knew anything about the fire.
“It was me,” Philip immediately replied. He explained how he had lost the trail, run
out of water, and set the fires as a “last resort.”
Philip was transferred to the emergency room at the Sedona Medical Center,
where he was treated by Dr. Jeff Hardin. Dr. Hardin diagnosed Philip with severe
dehydration, rhabdomyolysis, acute renal failure, weakness, and heat exhaustion.
Philip agreed to be transferred to the hospital in Cottonwood, where he received
further treatment.
2.a. The government filed a seven-count criminal complaint against Philip.
Count 1 charged him with leaving the Sycamore Fire without totally extinguishing
it, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1856, and Counts 2 through 7 charged him with
violating two federal regulations in connection with each of the three fires: 36
C.F.R. § 261.5(c), which outlaws “[c]ausing timber, trees, slash [i.e., dead trees],
brush or grass to burn except as authorized by permit”; and 36 C.F.R. § 261.52(a),
which outlaws “[b]uilding, maintaining, attending or using a fire, campfire, or stove
fire” when prohibited by an order.
Philip opted for a bench trial, which lasted two days. In her opening
statement, Philip’s counsel asserted that he set the fires because he “was faced with
a terrible choice, and he chose to save his life.”
The government presented testimony from a firefighter who had been part of
the crew that rescued Philip, and from the law enforcement officer who had
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interviewed him in the ambulance and at the hospital. Philip testified in his
defense, and also called Dr. Hardin, who testified that running out of water on the
strenuous hike had “endangered [Philip’s] life,” and noted that every year,
dehydration and heat stroke caused “several deaths” in the area. Asked to state
what would have happened to Philip after another day in the wilderness, Dr.
Hardin testified that he likely would not have survived: “Possible if he stayed in the
shade he could have survived another day, or even two, but unlikely. You know, it
probably would have been fatal.”
Philip testified that he had not seen anyone else at the trailhead or on the
trail in the course of his hike. Asked why he had set the fires, he answered, “I
wanted to live.”
b. The magistrate judge found Philip guilty on all counts. App. C. She found
that Philip’s actions were not protected by the necessity defense because (i) his
death was not sufficiently “imminent” when he set the fires, (ii) he had
“alternatives” to setting them in the manner that he did, such as building fire rings
or digging fire pits, and (iii) he created the conditions underlying the necessity by
being reckless and negligent in his preparation for the hike. She sentenced Philip to
one year of supervised probation, and the stipulated restitution amount of
$293,413.71, for the costs involved in containing the Sycamore Fire. After
unsuccessfully appealing his convictions to a district judge (App. B), Philip appealed
to the Ninth Circuit.
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3. The Ninth Circuit affirmed Philip’s convictions in a published opinion.
App. A. Except with respect to the Taylor Fire (which the court held was set at a
time when Philip’s death was not “imminent” (id. at 14–15)), the court relied on the
proposition that a person who is compelled to commit a criminal act to avert a
greater evil is not entitled to the protection of the necessity defense unless the
manner in which he commits that act is the safest available—i.e., he did not have
“safer alternatives.” Id. at 9. Citing precedent requiring people invoking the
necessity defense to act “reasonably,” the court posited that it is not “reasonable” to
take unlawful action to avert a greater evil when a “safer” alternative is available.
Id. at 17–20. But the “safer” alternatives to which the court referred were not
alternatives to setting unlawful signal fires—instead, they were more punctilious
ways of setting unlawful signal fires, such as “clearing brush, creating a fire ring or
pit, or extinguishing the Sycamore Fire before leaving it.” Id. at 17. Philip’s failure
to set the fires in this manner, the court held, rendered his actions “unreasonable”
and thus unprotected by the necessity defense.
Philip filed a petition for rehearing in which he argued that this limitation on
the scope of the necessity defense was contrary to the governing law and would
effectively render the defense useless. The court denied his petition. App. D.
REASONS FOR GRANTING THE PETITION
The Ninth Circuit’s “safest-alternative” gloss on the necessity defense
is a novel innovation that threatens to effectively nullify
this crucial defense.
Necessity is a common-law defense to criminal liability that “traditionally
covered the situation where physical forces beyond the actor’s control rendered
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illegal conduct the lesser of two evils.” United States v. Bailey, 444 U.S. 394, 410
(1980). This Court has acknowledged the defense in numerous cases. See id.;
Baender v. Barnett, 255 U.S. 224, 226 (1921) (noting that rule that prisoner who
escapes shall be guilty of felony “does not extend to a prisoner who breaks out when
the prison is on fire—for he is not to be hanged because he would not stay to be
burnt” (internal quotation marks omitted)); United States v. Kirby, 74 U.S. 482, 487
(1868) (same); The Diana, 74 U.S. 354, 360–61 (1868) (noting that, in a case of
“absolute and uncontrollable necessity,” a vessel may attempt to enter a blockaded
port).
The necessity defense rests on “public policy: the law ought to promote the
achievement of higher values at the expense of lesser values[.]” 2 Wayne R. LaFave,
Subst. Crim. L. (LaFave) § 10.1(a) (3d ed., Westlaw through Oct. 2024 Update). It is
essentially “utilitarian,” in that it “justifies criminal acts taken to avert a greater
harm,” thereby “maximizing social welfare.” United States v. Schoon, 971 F.2d 193,
196 (9th Cir. 1991). The defense “exists even when a statute does not explicitly
include [it],” Raich v. Gonzales, 500 F.3d 850, 858 (9th Cir. 2007), and it is assessed
“through an objective framework,” United States v. Perdomo-Espana, 522 F.3d 983,
987 (9th Cir. 2008). “When the necessity defense applies, it justifies the defendant’s
conduct in violating the literal language of the criminal law and so the defendant is
not guilty of the crime in question.” LaFave § 10.1(a).
One of the “evils” that commonly justifies the application of the necessity
defense is the actor’s own death. “The law deems the lives of all persons far more
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valuable than any property[.]” United States v. Ashton, 24 F. Cas. 873, 874 (D.
Mass. 1834) (Story, Circuit Justice); accord LaFave § 10.1(a) (“[I]t is better to save a
life than to save the property[.]”). The defense thus covers prisoners who escape a
burning prison, Baender, 255 U.S. at 226, and sailors who mutiny to avoid going
down with their ship, Schoon, 971 F.2d at 196. And it covers people like Philip, who
are compelled to break the law to save themselves after becoming lost in the
wilderness. Model Penal Code and Commentaries (MPC & Cmt.), Art. 3, § 3.02 cmt.
at 9 (1985) (“Mountain climbers lost in a storm may take refuge in a house or may
appropriate provisions.”).
The Ninth Circuit’s enumeration of the elements of the necessity defense is
typical:
To invoke the necessity defense, the defendants colorably must
have shown that: (1) they were faced with a choice of evils and chose
the lesser evil; (2) they acted to prevent imminent harm; (3) they
reasonably anticipated a direct causal relationship between their
conduct and the harm to be averted; and (4) they had no legal
alternatives to violating the law.
Schoon, 971 F.2d at 195; see also LaFave § 10.1(d). The defendant carries the
burden of proving the elements of the necessity defense by a preponderance of the
evidence. United States v. Cruz, 554 F.3d 840, 850 (9th Cir. 2009).
Philip demonstrated in his appeal that he proved these elements. He lost his
way many miles deep in a remote, sweltering, parched wilderness. He had seen no
one else on the trail, or even at the trailhead. He was out of water. He was so weak
and dehydrated that he was unable to walk more than 200 yards at a time, and
every minute that passed made him weaker and more dehydrated. The doctor who
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later treated him testified that he likely would not have survived another day in the
wilderness. Faced with the choice between dying and breaching a forest-protection
statute and two Forest Service regulations, Philip chose the lesser evil. While he
was still physically capable of doing so, he set signal fires that he reasonably—and
correctly—believed could save his life. The elements of the necessity defense were
proved.
The Ninth Circuit’s refusal to accept Philip’s necessity defense rested on its
introduction into the defense of a novel requirement: that the actor claiming the
defense prove that he did not overlook “safer” alternatives for committing the
necessary unlawful act—by which it meant safer ways of committing the unlawful
act. App. A at 17–20. This innovation should not be confused with the wellestablished principle that the actor claiming necessity must not have overlooked
legal alternatives to his unlawful action. Bailey, 444 U.S. at 410. The Ninth
Circuit’s safest-alternative rule imposes a fundamentally different requirement,
providing that even when a person must commit an unlawful act to avert a greater
evil, he will nevertheless be denied the protection of the defense unless he pursues
what the court deems the safest manner of committing that unlawful act.
This requirement represents a deeply unwise innovation that reaches beyond
the Ninth Circuit’s prior precedent and would, if left in place and permitted to
spread, threaten to eviscerate this crucial defense.
In support of its safest-alternative requirement, the Ninth Circuit cited its
prior opinions in Perdomo-Espana and Schoon. App. A at 12. But while these prior
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opinions reflect proper applications of the necessity defense as this Court has
articulated it, the instant case reaches beyond their holdings and rationales,
essentially modifying the nature of the defense in a manner this Court has never
sanctioned.
The Perdomo-Espana case involved a deported noncitizen who attempted to
claim necessity as a defense to his illegal entry into the United States. He asserted
that he believed his unlawful entry was necessary to preserve his life, because he
was diabetic and needed treatment for his high blood sugar. Perdomo-Espana, 522
F.3d at 985. The court rejected the noncitizen’s assertion that his subjective belief
was adequate to support the defense, holding that the elements of the defense must
be assessed “through an objective framework.” Id. at 987. The court held that the
actor’s belief that he “chose the lesser evil” must “be reasonable, as judged from an
objective point of view.” Id. at 988. The court found the noncitizen’s purported belief
that his actions were necessary unreasonable, in light of his medical condition, the
availability of medical care on the Mexican side of the border, and his “tactic of
hiding in bushes, in dark clothing, and in a remote area, trying to escape border
patrol’s detection.” Id. at 985–88.
In Schoon, the court addressed an attempt to invoke the necessity defense by
individuals who vandalized a local IRS office to protest American involvement in El
Salvador in the late 1980s. Schoon, 971 F.2d at 195. The court held that the defense
is not available to people who commit acts of “indirect civil disobedience”—i.e., acts
of protest “violating a law or interfering with a government policy that is not, itself,
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the object of protest.” Id. at 196. The court reasoned that such acts categorically fail
to satisfy three of the defense’s elements, because (i) they are directed against “the
mere existence of a constitutional law or governmental policy,” which is not a
“legally cognizable harm”; (ii) they are unlikely to avert the “harm”; and (iii) they
overlook the legal alternative of seeking congressional action. Id. at 197–200.
The court addressed the reasonableness requirement in connection with the
final, legal-alternatives element, noting that “[t]he necessity defense requires the
absence of any legal alternative to the contemplated illegal conduct which could
reasonably be expected to abate an imminent evil.” Id. at 198. The court used the
example of a jail fire:
A prisoner fleeing a burning jail, for example, would not be asked to
wait in his cell because someone might conceivably save him; such a
legal alternative is ill-suited to avoiding death in a fire. In other words,
the law implies a reasonableness requirement in judging whether legal
alternatives exist.
Id.
While Perdomo-Espana and Schoon confirmed that an actor’s belief that the
elements of the necessity defense are present must be objectively reasonable in
order for the defense to apply, neither opinion equated reasonableness with the
safest-alternative requirement that the Ninth Circuit imposed in the instant case.
In fact, the Schoon opinion appears to reject such a requirement, noting that a
prisoner need not pursue the “safer” alternative (i.e., the one that would minimize
the public’s exposure to his dangerous presence) of waiting to be rescued from a
burning jail, rather than escaping immediately. Id.
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Moreover, there is no logical equivalence between the reasonableness
requirement and the novel safest-alternative mandate that the Ninth Circuit
introduces in the instant case. A person compelled to commit a crime to avert a
greater evil will normally have an array of means of doing so available to him. The
prisoner in the burning jail, for example, could wait until the flames reach his cell
block, or the cell five doors down, or the cell two doors down, or his own cell, before
fleeing to safety. Only the last of these alternatives is the “safest,” but all of them
are reasonable. Likewise in the instant case, instead of carefully igniting a single
dead tree and then staying near it until the fire seemed to be going out, Philip could
theoretically (assuming he had the energy) have cleared brush and dug a pit. The
latter approach might have been “safer,” but neither option strayed outside the
bounds of reasonableness.
Still more troubling are the practical implications of the Ninth Circuit’s
safest-alternative requirement. The requirement invites a form of Monday-morning
quarterbacking that will strip the defense even from people who acted reasonably to
avert a greater evil. Indeed, it is difficult to imagine any action a person could take
in a necessity-defense scenario that would be sure to survive the Ninth Circuit’s
“safest-alternative” scrutiny. Escaped from prison to avoid being burned alive?
Baender, 255 U.S. at 226. You could have let the fire get closer first. Stole a full
meal from a cabin to avoid starving to death in the wilderness? MPC & Cmt., Art. 3,
§ 3.02 cmt. at 9. You could have stolen only the minimum amount required to
survive. Drove 20 miles per hour above the speed limit to get a severely injured
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person to the emergency room? LaFave § 10.1(c). You could have driven 15 miles per
hour above the limit and still saved the patient. And here: Set a prohibited fire to
avoid dying of dehydration and exposure in a remote wilderness? You could have
done it better, by clearing brush and digging a pit. Under the Ninth Circuit’s safestalternative rule, the perfect will be the enemy of the socially beneficial good.
Moreover, the safest-alternative rule is fundamentally unsuited to the
context of the necessity defense. This defense does not typically come into play in
situations in which an actor may calmly and deliberately plan and execute a
Platonic-ideal method of averting a greater evil. To the contrary, it arises in the
contexts of raging fires, sinking ships, remote wildernesses, and people who—like
Philip—are contending with life-threatening physical and mental stresses. Id. It is
all too easy, with the benefit of tranquility and hindsight, to flyspeck the actions
taken by a person facing desperate circumstances. But if this is how the necessity
defense is to be applied, few will enjoy its protection, however reasonable—albeit
imperfect—their actions may have been.
This Court should take action now to nip this pernicious gloss on the
necessity defense in the bud, before it takes root, propagates, and undermines the
viability of this crucial defense.
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CONCLUSION
The petition for a writ of certiorari should be granted.
RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED this 18th day of September, 2025.
JON M. SANDS
Federal Public Defender
District of Arizona
s/ Daniel L. Kaplan
DANIEL L. KAPLAN
Assistant Federal Public Defender
Counsel of Record for Petitioner
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