No. 24-5916

Javance Mickey Wilson v. California

Lower Court: California
Docketed: 2024-11-05
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: capital-sentencing constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure death-penalty jury-findings reasonable-doubt
Key Terms:
DueProcess FifthAmendment Takings Punishment CriminalProcedure Privacy JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2025-01-10
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does California's capital-sentencing scheme violate the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments by failing to require jury factual findings for death sentences beyond a reasonable doubt?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED Does California’s capital-sentencing scheme violate the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments because it fails to require that the jury make the factual findings necessary to impose a sentence of death beyond a reasonable doubt? ii STATEMENT OF

Docket Entries

2025-01-13
Petition DENIED.
2024-12-19
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/10/2025.
2024-12-04
Brief of respondent California in opposition filed.
2024-10-31
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 5, 2024)

Attorneys

California
Donald William OstertagCalifornia Department of Justice, Respondent
Javance Mickey Wilson
Craig Matthew BuckserOffice of the State Public Defender, Petitioner