No. 20-350

Daniel Flores v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2020-09-16
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)
Tags: 14th-amendment 5th-amendment confession-coercion confidential-informant due-process false-confession fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mexican-mafia
Latest Conference: 2021-01-15 (distributed 2 times)
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Are a defendant's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment due process rights violated by the placement of a paid confidential informant in an adjacent cell who is directed to threaten the defendant with assassination by the Mexican Mafia in order to elicit a confession?

2. Are a defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to counsel violated and circumvented where the state charges and holds a defendant in custody for a minor crime in order to position a paid, confidential informant posing as a high-ranking Mexican Mafia member, adjacent to the defendants' cell for the purpose of eliciting a confession on an uncharged major crime?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Are a defendant's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment due process rights violated by the placement of a paid confidential informant in an adjacent cell who is directed to threaten the defendant with assassination by the Mexican Mafia in order to elicit a confession?

Docket Entries

2021-01-19
Petition DENIED.
2020-12-30
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/15/2021.
2020-12-29
Reply of petitioner Daniel Flores filed. (Distributed)
2020-12-11
Brief of respondent Christian Pfeiffer, Warden, in opposition filed.
2020-11-02
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including December 14, 2020.
2020-10-30
Motion to extend the time to file a response from November 12, 2020 to December 14, 2020, submitted to The Clerk.
2020-10-13
Response Requested. (Due November 12, 2020)
2020-09-30
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/16/2020.
2020-09-24
Waiver of right of respondent Christian Pfeiffer to respond filed.
2020-09-11
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 16, 2020)

Attorneys

Christian Pfeiffer
Scott Alan TaryleAttorney General's Office, Respondent
Christian Pfeiffer, Warden,
Viet Huy NguyenCalifornia Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General, Respondent
Daniel Flores
Orly AhronyAhrony Appeals Law Group, Petitioner