No. 24-6744
Tia Lyn Nicole Sulu-Kerr v. Arizona
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: constitutional-rights criminal-code enumerated-rights legislative-restriction second-amendment self-defense
Latest Conference:
2025-04-17
Question Presented (from Petition)
Whether a state legislature may completely eliminate the enumerated right to self-defense, which is the second amendment's "central component", by limiting that justification to crimes that it chooses to define within the same criminal code title, and not permit it to be applied to any crime that it defines outside of that criminal code title, regardless of the reasonableness of the accused's actions.
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether a state legislature may completely eliminate the enumerated right to self-defense by limiting that justification to crimes within a specific criminal code title, thereby restricting the application of the Second Amendment's 'central component'
Docket Entries
2025-04-21
Petition DENIED.
2025-03-27
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/17/2025.
2025-03-25
Waiver of Arizona of right to respond submitted.
2025-03-25
Waiver of right of respondent Arizona to respond filed.
2025-03-03
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 10, 2025)
Attorneys
Arizona
Andrew Stuart Reilly — Office of the Attorney General, Respondent
Tia Sulu-Kerr