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Rony Galicia v. Maryland

Paid petition · Court of Appeals of Maryland, No. 5, September Term, 2021 · judgment June 27, 2022


Certiorari denied · December 5, 2022
Pre-decision estimate: 2% cert probability

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

Questions presented

This case presents the following questions:

  1. Whether the Sixth Amendment is violated by a trial court’s denial of cross-examination into an accomplice’s confession, where the prosecution introduced the confession, where the confession implicates other co-conspirators, and where the inquiry would fairly rebut the inference that the defendant participated in a double murder?

  2. There is a split among the courts of appeals and several states on the following question: Whether appellate courts should review violations of the Confrontation Clause de novo or for abuse of discretion?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Stephen Bennett Mercer
RaquinMercer LLC

For respondent
Daniel John Jawor
Office of the Attorney General of Maryland

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Dec 05 2022
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Nov 15 2022
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/2/2022.
  3. Nov 14 2022
    Waiver of right of respondent Maryland to respond filed.
  4. Nov 07 2022
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 12, 2022)