No. 20-7978

Todd Alan Winkler v. California

Lower Court: California
Docketed: 2021-05-10
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness inflammatory-propensity propensity-evidence
Latest Conference: 2021-06-17
Question Presented (from Petition)

Did the California Court of Appeal err when it concluded that inflammatory propensity evidence, pervasively used and erroneously admitted in the petitioner's criminal trial, did not render the trial fundamentally unfair by violating petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment right of due process guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Did the California Court of Appeal err in concluding that inflammatory-propensity-evidence,pervasively-used,erroneously-admitted did not render the trial fundamentally-unfair,violating-due-process

Docket Entries

2021-06-21
Petition DENIED.
2021-06-02
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/17/2021.
2021-05-28
Waiver of right of respondent People of the State of California to respond filed.
2021-04-27
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due June 9, 2021)

Attorneys

People of the State of California
Robert Collins NashCalifornia Department of Justice - Office of the Attorney General, Respondent
Todd Alan Winkler
Todd Alan Winkler — Petitioner