No. 25-5219
IFP
Tags: capital-sentencing constitutional-rights death-penalty jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt sentencing-procedure
Key Terms:
DueProcess FifthAmendment CriminalProcedure Punishment JusticiabilityDoctri
DueProcess FifthAmendment CriminalProcedure Punishment JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference:
2025-09-29
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether California's capital-sentencing scheme violates the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments because it fails to require the jury to find unanimously and beyond a reasonable doubt the facts necessary to impose a sentence of death rather than life without possibility of parole?
Question Presented (OCR Extract)
Whether California’s capital-sentencing scheme violates the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments because it fails to require the jury to find unanimously and beyond a reasonable doubt the facts necessary to impose a sentence of death rather than life without possibility of parole? i STATEMENT OF
Docket Entries
2025-10-06
Petition DENIED.
2025-09-11
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2025.
2025-08-25
Brief of State of California in opposition submitted.
2025-08-25
Brief of respondent California in opposition filed.
2025-07-15
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 28, 2025)
Attorneys
Mao Hin
Donald Robert Tickle — Attorney at Law, Petitioner
Donald Robert Tickle — Attorney at Law, Petitioner
State of California
Jeffrey Alan White — California Department of Justice, Respondent
Jeffrey Alan White — California Department of Justice, Respondent