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Tim Makoto Nukida v. California

Paid petition · Court of Appeal of California, Sixth Appellate District, No. H050513 · judgment March 29, 2024


Certiorari denied · October 21, 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. State courts of last resort are intractably divided over the admissibility of Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome (CSA A S). Should certiorari be granted to clarify that CSA AS is irrelevant, unreliable, and inflammatory, thereby violating due process and fair trial rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments?

  2. Should certiorari be granted to address the critical question of whether a 112-year sentence for a firsttime sex offender, whose actions involved minimal lewd conduct with minimal force against a single victim, constitutes cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Mark Goldrosen

For respondent

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 21 2024
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Oct 02 2024
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/18/2024.
  3. Aug 13 2024
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 16, 2024)