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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
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate: the model weighted this down for a self-represented petitioner.
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:
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In her preliminary instructions to the jury the presiding judge instructed the jury to find for the plaintiffs,- t
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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;
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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.
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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
Subject area
Due Process (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Order
Order list, June 28, 2021 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Jun 28 2021Petition DENIED.
- Jun 08 2021DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/24/2021.
- Apr 13 2021Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due May 20, 2021)