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Mao Hin v. California

IFP petition · Supreme Court of California, No. S141519 · judgment February 3, 2025

Certiorari denied · October 6, 2025

Question presented

Whether California’s capital-sentencing scheme violates the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments because it fails to require the jury to find unanimously and beyond a reasonable doubt the facts necessary to impose a sentence of death rather than life without possibility of parole?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Donald Robert Tickle
Attorney at Law

For respondent
Jeffrey Alan White
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, October 6, 2025 · Certiorari denied

Proceedings

  1. Oct 06 2025
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Sep 11 2025
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2025.
  3. Aug 25 2025
    Brief of respondent California in opposition filed.
    Main DocumentCertificate of Word Count
  4. Jul 15 2025
    Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 28, 2025)
    Motion for Leave to Proceed in Forma PauperisPetitionProof of Service