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Robert Stephen Couturier v. Presiding Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 17-56376 · judgment May 7, 2018
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate: the model weighted this down for a self-represented petitioner.
Question presented
Did the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals error when it denied The Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability? Is a Defendant denied the right to a fair trial and impartial jury under Federal Law and The United States Constitution and Amendments, when his or her bench trial is conducted before and she or he is convicted by the very same judge that signed the Arrest Warrant that involves the matter at hand? Is it reasonable to logically deduce that reasonable people or fair minded jury people that know all of the facts would believe that a judge would follow legal procedure and would read a police report that supports the probable cause necessary to issue an arrest warrant? Is a defendant denied his Fourteenth Amendment Right to a fair trial when the judge tells the defendant during a pre-trial hearing that she does not know the facts of the current case and it turns out that this same
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Robert Stephen Couturier
For respondent
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Case
Subject area
Criminal Procedure (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Order
Order list, February 19, 2019 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Feb 19 2019Petition DENIED.
- Jan 23 2019DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/15/2019.
- Sep 22 2018Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 11, 2019)