No. 18-7665
Robert Tommy Garrett v. California
IFP
Tags: appellate-review constitutional-provision double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-interpretation lesser-included-offense multiple-convictions multiple-punishments procedural-issue statutory-provision
Latest Conference:
2019-03-29
Question Presented (from Petition)
Appellant submits that the Trial Court's erroneous failure to instruct the jury on the lesser included offense of attempted criminal threat deprived him of due process of law and his right to a jury trial. U.S. Const. 5th & 14th Amends.; accord, Beck v. Alabama (1980) 447 U.S. 625, 633-638.
Section 654 prohibits multiple punishment; the trial court must stay execution of sentence on the convictions for which multiple punishment is prohibited.
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether the trial court's erroneous failure to instruct the jury on the lesser included offense of law and the defendant's right to a jury trial violated the U.S. Constitution
Docket Entries
2019-04-01
Petition DENIED.
2019-03-14
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/29/2019.
2018-09-17
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 1, 2019)
Attorneys
Robert Garrett
Robert Tommy Garrett — Petitioner