Supreme Court Report

Supreme Court of the United States · Official docket →

Isidro Javier Armenta v. California

Paid petition · Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, No. 23APIN00010 · judgment August 28, 2023


Certiorari denied · March 25, 2024
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

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

Questions presented

  1. Whether the Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause holding in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, 557 U.S. 305

  2. extends to automated traffic enforcement system schemes. Conversely, whether as applied, do automated traffic enforcement system moving violation allegations supersede and suspend the Sixth Amendment’s Confrontation Clause. 2.Whether an automated traffic enforcement system scheme requiring direct approval by at least one sworn peace officer, and where a trial court becomes aware that the requirement is not met, and suppresses this material fact to convict the defendant, violates a defendant’s right to procedural due process under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.

  3. Whether the statute at issue, has sufficient confusion, and unknown punishable conduct so as to violate defendant’s right to due process and renders this statute void for vagueness.

  4. Whether the statutes as enforced by and in conjunction with automated traffic enforcement systems violate the defendant's right to due process and should be void due to arbitrary prosecution. 5.Whether the defendant has been intentionally treated differently from others similarly situated (those accused of moving violations by a natural person peace officer versus his case with no peace officer at all) and that there is no rational basis for the disparate treatment, so as to violate the defendant's Equal Protection under the Fourteenth Amendment.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Isidro Javier Armenta

For respondent

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Mar 25 2024
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Mar 06 2024
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/22/2024.
  3. Jan 19 2024
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 23, 2024)