Tim Makoto Nukida v. California
DueProcess Punishment JusticiabilityDoctri Jurisdiction
Whether state courts are divided on the admissibility of Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome (CSAAS) and if such testimony violates due process rights
QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. State courts of last resort are intractably divided over the admissibility of Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome (CSAAS). Should certiorari be granted to clarify that CSAAS is irrelevant, unreliable, and inflammatory, thereby violating due process and fair trial rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments? 2. Should certiorari be granted to address the critical question of whether a 112-year sentence for a firsttime sex offender, whose actions involved minimal lewd conduct with minimal force against a single victim, constitutes cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment?