No. 18-7101

John Samuel Ghobrial v. California

Lower Court: California
Docketed: 2018-12-19
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum
Key Terms:
DueProcess Punishment
Latest Conference: 2019-02-15
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact that serves to increase the statutory maximum for the crime must be found by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED Does California’s death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact that serves to increase the statutory maximum for the crime must be found by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt? i

Docket Entries

2019-02-19
Petition DENIED.
2019-01-31
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/15/2019.
2019-01-16
Brief of respondent The State of California in opposition filed.
2018-12-11
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due January 18, 2019)
2018-10-26
Application (18A441) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until January 5, 2019.
2018-10-23
Application (18A441) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from November 6, 2018 to January 5, 2019, submitted to Justice Kagan.

Attorneys

John Samuel Ghobrial
Anne W. LackeyOffice of the State Public Defender, Petitioner
Anne W. LackeyOffice of the State Public Defender, Petitioner
The State of California
Collette Catherine CavalierOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent
Collette Catherine CavalierOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent