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Michael Moran v. California
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 18-15869 · judgment January 10, 2019
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
Could a jurist of reason find that the state court unreasonably applied clearly established federal law in determining that admission of petitioner's in-custody statements in the absence of Miranda advisements did not deprive petitioner of due process of law under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments? Could a jurist of reason find that the state court unreasonably applied clearly established federal law in determining that the trial court's exclusion of evidence did not violate petitioner's right to present a defense under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments? Could a jurist of reason find that the state court unreasonably applied clearly established federal law in determining that prosecutorial misconduct in voir dire and closing argument did not violate petitioner's right to a fair trial and right to counsel under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments? Could a jurist of reason find that even if none of these errors were prejudicial in themselves, the cumulative effect of these error deprived petitioner of a fair trial under the Fourteenth Amendment?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Paul Gilruth McCarthy
Law Offices of Beles & Beles
For respondent
Jill M. Thayer
California Attorney General's Office
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- May 20 2019Petition DENIED.
- Apr 30 2019DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/16/2019.
- Apr 18 2019Waiver of right of respondent People of the State of California to respond filed.
- Apr 08 2019Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due May 16, 2019)