No. 24-5916
Javance Mickey Wilson v. California
IFP
Tags: capital-sentencing constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure death-penalty jury-findings reasonable-doubt
Key Terms:
DueProcess FifthAmendment Takings Punishment CriminalProcedure Privacy JusticiabilityDoctri
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 Ostertag — California Department of Justice, Respondent
Javance Mickey Wilson
Craig Matthew Buckser — Office of the State Public Defender, Petitioner