jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-6038 Lakeith Lynn Washington v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-17 GVR Relisted (2)IFP alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey armed-career-criminal-act constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt minimum-and-maximum-sentences prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Do the Fifth and Sixth Amendments require facts to prove prior convictions for ACCA sentencing be alleged in indictment and proven to jury?
19-7649 Socorro Susan Caro v. California California 2020-02-12 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact, other than a prior c…
19-7429 Louis Mitchell, Jr. v. California California 2020-01-28 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment aggravating-circumstances aggravating-mitigating-circumstances constitutional-rights death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-determination jury-trial mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Does the mandatory weighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances under the California death penalty statute—a factfinding determination that se…
19-7379 Lee Samuel Capers v. California California 2020-01-22 Denied IFP constitutional-requirement criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum Whether California's death penalty scheme violates the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior…
19-5977 Kerry Lyn Dalton v. California California 2019-09-17 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-requirement criminal-sentencing death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment statutory-maximum Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior con…
19-5927 Cuitlahuac Tahua Rivera v. California California 2019-09-13 Denied IFP constitutional-requirement criminal-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fact-finding fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact that serves to…
18-9698 Ruben Perez Gomez v. California California 2019-06-18 Denied IFP constitutional-requirement death-penalty fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding reasonable-doubt sentencing-standard sixth-amendment statutory-maximum statutory-maximum-punishment Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact other than a prior co…
18-8753 Carl Devon Powell v. California California 2019-04-10 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances constitutional-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-fact-finding mitigating-circumstances reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact, other than a prior c…
18-6262 Richard Penunuri v. California California 2018-10-09 Denied IFP constitutional-requirement criminal-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fact-finding fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-finding reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Does California's death penalty scheme violate the requirement under the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments that every fact that serves to…
18-5378 Alejandro Chavez-Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne-v-united-states apprendi-v-new-jersey burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights indictment jury-beyond-reasonable-doubt jury-trial prior-conviction sentencing statutory-maximum Whether all facts—including the fact of a prior conviction—that increase a defendant's statutory maximum must be pleaded in the indictment and either …