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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

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

Oct 06 2025
Petition DENIED.
Sep 11 2025
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2025.
Aug 25 2025
Brief of respondent California in opposition filed.
Main Document Certificate of Word Count
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 Pauperis Petition Proof of Service