No. 20-7600

Antonio Navarro v. California

Lower Court: California
Docketed: 2021-03-30
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment translation-evidence witness-testimony
Key Terms:
DueProcess Privacy
Latest Conference: 2021-05-27
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the admission of a translation of a witness's statement made in anticipation of litigation without calling the translator at trial for cross-examination violates the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

No question identified. : IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES OCTOBER TERM, 2020 ANTONIO NAVARRO, Petitioner, , VS | STATE OF CALIFORNIA, | Respondent. | PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE CALIFORNIA COURT | OF APPEAL, SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT, DIVISION FOUR The Petitioner, Antonio Navarro, hereby prays that a Writ of Certiorari issue from the : decision of the California Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, Division Four, in case number B296251, affirming his conviction first degree murder and a firearm enhancement based upon the murder conviction. He argued on direct appeal before that Court that the admission at his trial of a translation of a witness’s statement made in anticipation of litigation without calling the translator at trial for crossexamination, violated the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. The Court of Appeal issued its unpublished decision affirming Mr. Navarro’s conviction on October 8, 2020. [

Docket Entries

2021-06-01
Petition DENIED.
2021-05-12
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/27/2021.
2021-03-23
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 29, 2021)

Attorneys

Antonio Navarro
John Owen LanahanLaw Office of John Lanahan, Petitioner
John Owen LanahanLaw Office of John Lanahan, Petitioner