Jacqueline Marshall Rateau
How Judge Rateau decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
Procedural preferences
On First Step Act time-credit habeas, her recommendation (as adopted) holds that a medium-risk inmate has no liberty interest in application of earned FSA time credits and that the court cannot compel discretionary BOP placement decisions.
“The R&R concluded that discretionary authority cannot give rise to a liberty interest, and that Petitioner has no right to dictate his earned FSA time credits be applied in a specific way. ... the Court cannot compel the BOP to perform the discretionary action of deeming Petitioner eligible under 3624(g).”
Cautions
Enforces the AEDPA one-year limitations period strictly: recommended denying a Sec.2254 petition as untimely and rejected an equitable-tolling argument based on cell-isolation conditions.
“even if Petitioner is correct, his petition remains untimely because his one-year limitations period expired on October 19, 2012 and he filed this petition on August 6, 2014. Because Sartin's petition remains untimely, this Court will accept and adopt the R & R and deny the petition.”
Motion outcomes
Counted from classified signed orders only. Percentages are shown only where the sample is large enough to be meaningful; smaller samples are reported as raw counts.
| Habeas petition N = 2 |
Denied: 2 | counts only |
| Motions to dismiss N = 1 |
Denied: 1 | counts only |
| Motion to suppress N = 1 |
Granted: 1 | counts only |
| Social security appeal N = 1 |
Granted: 1 | counts only |
A "1 of 1" is one ruling, not a tendency. Treat small samples as illustrative, not predictive.
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“On May 7, 2024, Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Rateau issued a Report and Recommendation ("R&R) in which she recommend this Court deny the Petition. ... IT IS FURTHER ORDERED ADOPTING IN FULL the Report and Recommendation (Doc. 11). IT IS FURTHER ORDERED DENYING the Petition. (Doc. 1).”
“this Court shall overrule Petitioner's objections, accept and adopt the R & R and deny Sartin's petition. ... Because Sartin's petition remains untimely, this Court will accept and adopt the R & R and deny the petition. IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Magistrate Judge Jacqueline M. Rateau's Report and Recommendation is accepted and adopted.”
“On January 18, 2017, Magistrate Judge Jacqueline M. Rateau issued a Report and Recommendation recommending that this Court deny Defendant's Motion to Dismiss because each count of Defendant's indictment constitutes a separate crime ... IT IS ORDERED that the Report and Recommendation (Doc. 114) is accepted and adopted in full. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Defendant's Motion to Dismiss Count 1 or 2 (Doc. 39) is denied.”
“On April 14, 2017, Magistrate Judge Jacqueline M. Rateau issued a Report and Recommendation (Doc. 35) recommending that this Court grant Defendant's Motion to Suppress (Doc. 17). ... IT IS ORDERED that the Report and Recommendation (Doc. 35) is accepted and adopted in full. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Defendant's Motion to Suppress (Doc. 17) is granted.”
“On November 16, 2023, Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Rateau issued a Report and Recommendation (Doc. 27), recommending that this Court reverse the decision of the Commissioner of Social Security and remand this matter to the agency for further administrative proceedings. ... IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. 24) is granted. The decision of the Commissioner of Social Security is reversed, and this matter is remanded to the Commissioner for further administrative proceedings”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
Tucson-division magistrate (office since 2001-07-11). Enumerable assigned_judge slice (2026 pending) is dominated by criminal cr/duty-mj matters (border/immigration felony and petty-offense initial appearances/detention), Social Security disability appeals (assigned to her as magistrate), and assigned/consent civil cases. Her habeas/criminal merits work is REFERRAL-based (R&Rs reviewed by the district judges, captured in the reasoning layer). Composition only; not a grant rate or base rate.