Isaac Garcia Bracamontes v. California
DueProcess
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?
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