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Chang Wang, et al. v. Terilyn Carter-Garrett, et al.

Paid petition · Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate District, No. A155643 · judgment November 9, 2020

Certiorari denied · June 28, 2021

Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Questions presented

1 fr I. QUESTION rRESENTED Whether the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution were violated to deny Petitioners a fair trial due to the bias of the presiding judge when, cumulatively:

In her preliminary instructions to the jury the presiding judge instructed the jury to find for the plaintiffs,- t
During the trial, the presiding judge admonished the defendants an inordinate and unconscionable number of times, at least seventeen, in the presence of and not in the presence of the jury;
During the trial, the presiding judge sustained the objections of counsel for plaintiffs, an inordinate and unconscionable number of times, at least one hundred thirteen, in the presence of and not in the presence of the jury.
During the trial, the judge unfairly and prejudicially allowed testimony from a witness to show a pattern to a prior case in which the

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Chang Wang

For respondent
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Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

Jun 28 2021
Petition DENIED.
Jun 08 2021
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/24/2021.
Apr 13 2021
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due May 20, 2021)