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Cunningham v. California
No. 05-6551 Title:

John Cunningham v. California

Subject:

California's Determinate Sentencing Law, Sentencing, 6th Amendment, 14th Amendment

Question:

Whether California's Determinate Sentencing Law, by permitting sentencing judges to impose enhanced sentences based on their determination of facts not found by the jury or admitted by the defendant, violates the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments.

Decisions:

• United States Supreme Court, Cert. Granted: February 21, 2006

Resources:

• Docket Sheet From the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Northwestern University - Medill School of Journalism: On the Docket

Briefs:

    Parties

Petition Phase

• Certiorari Petition
• Opposition to Petition
• Petitioner's Reply Brief
  
  Merits Phase
  
• Brief of Petitioner Cunningham
• Brief of Respondent California
• Amicus Brief of the NACDL in Support of Petitioner

Counsel of Record

For Petitioners Cunningham, et al.:

Peter Gold
San Francisco, CA

For Respondent California:

Jeffrey M.K. Laurence
Office of the Attorney General
Sacramento, CA

 

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