No. 18-7981

Santos Peter Murillo, aka Peter Santos Murillo v. United States

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-02-14
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: batson batson-hearing civil-rights discrimination first-amendment fourth-amendment jury-selection public-trial sixth-amendment standing triviality-exception warrantless-search
Key Terms:
FourthAmendment CriminalProcedure
Latest Conference: 2019-03-22
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Is there a 'triviality' exception to the First Amendment's and Sixth Amendment's public trial requirement, and, if so, was a hearing regarding Government discrimination against a potential juror 'trivial' such that it could be conducted in a closed back room from which the public was excluded?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Is there a “triviality” exception to the First Amendment’s and Sixth Amendment’s public trial requirement, and, if so, was a hearing regarding Government discrimination against a potential juror “trivial” such that it could be conducted in a closed back room from which the public was excluded? 2. Whether a police officer violated the Fourth Amendment when, without a warrant, he lifted up a floor mat of a car to inspect an object he thought might be a gun? i PARTIES All

Docket Entries

2019-03-25
Petition DENIED.
2019-03-07
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/22/2019.
2019-02-27
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2019-02-12
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 18, 2019)

Attorneys

Santos Peter Murillo
Neil Martin FoxLaw Office of Neil Fox PLLC, Petitioner
Neil Martin FoxLaw Office of Neil Fox PLLC, Petitioner
United States
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent