No. 22-6800

Ronald Lee Sorenson v. Washington

Lower Court: Washington
Docketed: 2023-02-16
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: constitutional-rights due-process jurisdiction mathews-factors reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment structural-error structural-error-doctrine venue
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2023-04-14
Question Presented (AI Summary)

where-the-first-of-the-four-total-specific-alleged-acts-occurred-outside-the-state-of-washington

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED . 1. Where the First of the Four Total Specific Alleged Acts : ; presented by the prosecution in its Evidence in support of : the Four Total Counts Charged against Mr. Sorenson, for crimes charged involving B.E.S., was presented and conceded ; to by the Prosecution as having occurred in the State of Oregon at a location on the beach in Violation of Mr. Sorenson's Sixth Amendment Constitutional Right to be tried in the State wherein the crime shall allegedly have been committed, does the Structural Error Doctrine require the Convictions in Mr. Sorenson's’ Case to be Vacated? : 2. Where the First of the Four Total Specific Alleged Acts presented by the prosecution in its Evidence in support of : the Four Total Counts Charged against Mr. Sorenson, for crimes charged involving B.E.S., was presented and conceded. to by the prosecution as having occurred in the State of Oregon at a location on the beach in Violation of Mr. Sorenson's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment Constitutional Rights to Due Process, does the Reasonable Doubt Standard require the Convictions in this case be Vacated where it is impossible for the Jury to have found proof beyond a reasonable doubt that all Four Total Counts Charged for ; crimes involving B.E.S. had occurred in the State of Washington? 3. Where the First of the Four Total Specific Alleged Acts presented by the prosecution in its Evidence in support of the Four Total Counts Charged against Mr. Sorenson, for ; crimes charged involving B.E.S., was presented and conceded to by the prosecution as having occurred in the State of Oregon at a location on the beach in Violation of Mr. ; Sorenson's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment Constitutional Rights to Due Process, does the application of the Mathews Factors to the Facts in this Case require Mr. Sorenson's : Convictions be Vacated and an additional procedural ; safeguard, requiring State's to Dismiss out of State Jurisdiction Counts from criminal proceedings, to be established by the Supreme Court of the United States?

Docket Entries

2023-04-17
Petition DENIED.
2023-03-30
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/14/2023.
2022-02-06
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 20, 2023)

Attorneys

Ronald Lee Sorenson
Ronald Lee Sorenson — Petitioner
Ronald Lee Sorenson — Petitioner