No. 24A534

Isaac Garcia Bracamontes v. California

Lower Court: California
Docketed: 2024-12-03
Status: Presumed Complete
Type: A
Tags: appellate-review constitutional-rights court-of-appeal criminal-appeal direct-appeal penal-code
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (from Petition)

does the holding of the California Supreme Court in People v. Villatoro, 54 Cal.4th 1152, 1165-1168 (2012) (now embodied in California Criminal Jury Instruction 1191B), which grants trial courts discretion to instruct jurors, where multiple sex offenses are charged, that if they find the defendant guilty of one of the charged offenses, they may infer he is inclined to commit sex offenses, and therefore that he likely committed all the charged sex offenses, and that he indeed did commit all the charged sex offenses, so long as there is corroborating evidence, conflict with the holding of this Court in Ulster County Court v. Allen, 442 U.S. 140, 156-157 (1979), which prohibits jury instructions that authorize irrational inferences?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a state court's partial denial of a criminal defendant's direct appeal under California Penal Code § 1237(a) violates the defendant's constitutional right to meaningful appellate review

Docket Entries

2024-12-04
Application (24A534) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until February 8, 2025.
2024-11-26
Application (24A534) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from December 10, 2024 to February 8, 2025, submitted to Justice Kagan.

Attorneys

Isaac Bracamontes
Randy Perry BakerRandy Baker, Attorney at Law, Petitioner