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Cesar Santana v. California

Paid petition · Supreme Court of California, No. S259577 · judgment March 18, 2020


Certiorari denied · January 25, 2021
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate: the model weighted this down for a self-represented petitioner.

Questions presented

  1. Does California Create a Liberty Interest to "Youthful-Offender's" when it Enacted Legislation in Response/Remedy of a United States Supreme Court Decision (Miller v. Alabama, (2012) 132 S^Ct. 2254, 2496) whem the State Law removes the "juvenile" desigation recognizing the larger class as defined/decided in that Supreme Court Decision by the Medical/Psychological Professional as concluding upon completion of a youth's 25th year?

  2. Does a State Habeas Corpus Petitioner make a Valid Constitutional challenge to the fact that there are no reasoned sentencing schematic which delineates the differ­ ences in culpability for those juvenile's/youthful-offender's tried uhder adult law when the enacted legislation (embracing Miller directly in its language) does not return the "youth-offender" to the sentencing court for consideration of an age appropriate sentecing consideration as the Miller Court instructed the State's must do, and giving broad Sentencing Court Discretion in age appropriate sentencing matters and not necessarily having to exact life sentences?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Cesar Santana

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, January 25, 2021 · Certiorari denied

Proceedings

  1. Jan 25 2021
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jan 06 2021
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/22/2021.
  3. Jun 11 2020
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 21, 2020)