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Albert Jones v. California
Paid petition · Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate District, No. A164421 · judgment September 28, 2023
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
Do the protections of Doyle v. Ohio, 426 U.S. 610 (1976)—which prohibit a prosecutor on commenting on a defendant’s post-Miranda warning invocation of silence—apply when a defendant selectively invokes his right to remain silent as to certain topics, but freely answers questions on other topics?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Hanni M. Fakhoury
Moeel Lah Fakhoury LLP
For respondent
David M. Baskind
California Department of Justice
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, May 13, 2024 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- May 13 2024Petition DENIED.
- Apr 17 2024DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/9/2024.
- Apr 10 2024Waiver of right of respondent State of California to respond filed.
- Mar 12 2024Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due May 10, 2024)