No. 22-6445
Juan Villa Ramirez v. California
IFP
Tags: aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-finding ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment
Key Terms:
DueProcess Punishment HabeasCorpus
DueProcess Punishment HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference:
2023-03-17
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, 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?
Docket Entries
2023-03-20
Petition DENIED.
2023-03-02
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/17/2023.
2023-01-27
Brief of respondent California in opposition filed.
2022-12-30
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due February 3, 2023)
Attorneys
California
Sean M. McCoy — California Department of Justice, Respondent
Sean M. McCoy — California Department of Justice, Respondent
Juan Villa Ramirez
Lisa Short — Snedeker, Smith and Short, Petitioner
Lisa Short — Snedeker, Smith and Short, Petitioner