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Kim Blandino v. Nevada, et al.

Paid petition · Court of Appeals of Nevada, No. 81765-COA · judgment September 25, 2020


Certiorari denied · February 22, 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.

Question presented

  1. Whether this Court’s decision in Rippo v. Baker, 137 S. Ct. 905 (2017) which concerns a structural error of the Constitutional denial of an impartial judge in a criminal case under the fifth and fourteenth amendment due process clauses requires correction or vindication before a trial or conviction where all the facts of the disqualifying issues are fully developed.

  2. Whether a criminal Defendant as an individual that exercises his right to Establish himself as a religion under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and in the free exercise thereof in his belief and practice is called by his Creator to investigate judicial corruption, can be required to go through pretrial and trial by the very judges that he is investigating and which these same judges have knowledge of these ongoing investigations consistent with the First, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

  3. Whether a State’s appellate and highest court can refuse to apply Supreme Court precedent such as in Rippo. Withrow v. Larkin. 421 U.S. 35, 47. 95 S.Ct.

  4. 43 L.Ed.2d 712 (1975) and Williams v. Pennsylvania. 579 U.S. . 195 L.Ed.2d 132 (2016) again and again and still'be given deference and it not be held , that bringingAhe issue to said state courts is not only establish futility that it is . also an exercise in futility

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Kim Blandino

For respondent

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Feb 22 2021
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Feb 03 2021
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/19/2021.
  3. Dec 15 2020
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 21, 2021)