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Ramin Khorrami v. Arizona
Paid petition · Court of Appeals of Arizona, Division One, No. 1 CA-CR 20-0088 · judgment July 29, 2021
Before the decision, roughly the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for counsel who has won certiorari before and a petition citing three to ten dissents, and down for a state or local-government respondent.
Question presented
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony. (i)
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Seth P. Waxman
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
For respondent
Linley Sarah Wilson
Office of the Arizona Attorney General
Case
Subject area
Criminal Procedure (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 5 conferences
Amicus briefs
3 cert-stage
Linked docket
21A550
Argument & decision
Decided November 7, 2022.
Proceedings
- Nov 07 2022Petition DENIED. Justice Kavanaugh would grant the petition for a writ of certiorari. Justice Gorsuch, dissenting from the denial of certiorari. (Detached Opinion)
- Oct 31 2022DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/4/2022.
- Oct 24 2022DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/28/2022.
- Oct 11 2022DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/14/2022.
- Oct 03 2022DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/7/2022.
- Aug 24 2022DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2022.
- Aug 23 2022Reply of petitioner Ramin Khorrami filed. (Distributed)
- Aug 10 2022Brief of respondent Arizona in opposition filed.
- Jul 11 2022Brief amicus curiae of Constitutional Accountability Center filed.
- Jul 11 2022Brief amicus curiae of Utah Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers filed.
- Jul 07 2022Brief amici curiae of American Civil Liberties Union, et al. filed.
- Jun 17 2022Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including August 10, 2022.
- Jun 15 2022Motion to extend the time to file a response from July 11, 2022 to August 10, 2022, submitted to The Clerk.
- Jun 08 2022Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 11, 2022)
- Mar 25 2022Application (21A550) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until June 8, 2022.
- Mar 23 2022Application (21A550) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from May 9, 2022 to June 8, 2022, submitted to Justice Kagan.