No. 20-704

Cesar Santana v. California

Lower Court: California
Docketed: 2020-11-20
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: age-appropriate-sentencing civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process habeas-corpus juvenile-sentencing liberty-interest miller-v-alabama sentencing youth-offender
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2021-01-22
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does California create a liberty interest when it enacted legislation in response to Miller v. Alabama?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED . 1. Does California Create a Liberty Interest to when it Enacted Legislation in Response/Remedy of a United States Supreme Court Decision (Miller v. Alabama, (2012) 132 S{Ct. 2254, 2€96) when the State Law removes the ''juvenile" desigation recognizing the larger class as defined/decided in that Supreme Court Decision by the Professional as concluding upon completion , of a youth's 25th year? . 2. Boes a State Habeas Corpus Petitioner make a Valid Constitutional challenge to the fact that there are no reasoned sentencing schematic which delinéates the differences in culpability for those tried uhder adult law when the enacted legislation (embracing Miller directly in its language) does not ; return the "youth-offender" to the sentencing court for consideration of an age appropriate sentecing consideration as the Miller Court instructed the State's must do, and giving broad Sentencing Court Discretion in age appropriate sentencing matters and not aecessarily having to exact life sentencés? :

Docket Entries

2021-01-25
Petition DENIED.
2021-01-06
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/22/2021.
2020-06-11
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 21, 2020)

Attorneys

Cesar Santana
Cesar Santana — Petitioner