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Joseph Anthony Barrett v. California
IFP petition · Supreme Court of California, No. S124131 · judgment June 23, 2025
Certiorari denied · January 12, 2026
Question presented
When a charged crime occurs within prison walls, do the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require excusal for cause of prospective jurors who are employed by the state’s prison management agency on the ground of implicit bias because they identify economically, socially, and emotionally with their employer?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Christina Arlene Spaulding
Office of the State Public Defender
For respondent
Anne Marie Spitzberg
California Attorney General, Department of Justice
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Jan 12 2026Petition DENIED.
- Dec 17 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/9/2026.
- Dec 03 2025Brief of respondent California in opposition filed.
- Oct 10 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including December 3, 2025.
- Oct 09 2025Motion to extend the time to file a response from November 3, 2025 to December 3, 2025, submitted to The Clerk.
- Sep 19 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due November 3, 2025)