No. 22-6088
Tupoutoe Mataele v. California
IFP
Tags: 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment aggravating-circumstances constitutional-requirements criminal-sentencing death-penalty jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt
Key Terms:
AdministrativeLaw DueProcess Punishment HabeasCorpus Securities Privacy JusticiabilityDoctri
AdministrativeLaw DueProcess Punishment HabeasCorpus Securities Privacy JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference:
2023-01-20
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement that every fact, other than a prior conviction, that serves to increase the statutory maximum penalty for a crime must be found by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt?
Question Presented (OCR Extract)
QUESTION PRESENTED Does California’s death penalty scheme, which permits the trier of fact to impose a sentence of death without finding beyond a reasonable doubt the existence of one or more aggravating circumstances, violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact, other than a prior conviction, that serves to increase the statutory maximum penalty for a crime must be found by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt? //1
Docket Entries
2023-01-23
Petition DENIED
2023-01-23
Petition DENIED.
2023-01-05
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/20/2023.
2022-12-19
Brief of respondent California in opposition filed.
2022-11-08
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 19, 2022)
Attorneys
California
Tupoutoe Mataele
Stephen Michael Lathrop — Law Offices of Lathrop & Villa, Petitioner