No. 25-5219

Mao Hin v. California

Lower Court: California
Docketed: 2025-07-29
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: capital-sentencing constitutional-rights death-penalty jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt sentencing-procedure
Key Terms:
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 TickleAttorney at Law, Petitioner
Donald Robert TickleAttorney at Law, Petitioner
State of California
Jeffrey Alan WhiteCalifornia Department of Justice, Respondent
Jeffrey Alan WhiteCalifornia Department of Justice, Respondent