No. 21-5656

Omar Cebrero v. Rosemary Ndoh, Warden

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2021-09-13
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: criminal-conviction due-process felony-murder jackson-v-virginia jury-finding major-participant special-circumstance sufficiency-of-evidence
Key Terms:
HabeasCorpus Punishment
Latest Conference: 2021-11-05
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the state court's determination that there was sufficient evidence to support the jury's special circumstance finding that Petitioner was a 'major participant' in the underlying felony, which authorized Petitioner's life sentence for his felony-murder conviction, conflicts with this Court's standard in Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979)?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED Whether the state court’s determination that there was sufficient evidence to support the jury’s special circumstance finding that Petitioner was a “major participant” in the underlying felony, which authorized Petitioner's life sentence for his felony-murder conviction, conflicts with this Court’s standard in Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979)? pretix

Docket Entries

2021-11-08
Petition DENIED.
2021-10-21
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/5/2021.
2021-10-13
Waiver of right of respondent Rosemary Ndoh to respond filed.
2021-09-08
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 13, 2021)

Attorneys

Omar Cebrero
Kristi A. HughesLaw Office of Kristi A. Hughes, Petitioner
Kristi A. HughesLaw Office of Kristi A. Hughes, Petitioner
Rosemary Ndoh
Paul Edward O'ConnorAttorney General's Office, Respondent
Paul Edward O'ConnorAttorney General's Office, Respondent