For the fifth time, the Supreme Court conferenced today on Office of the State Public Defender v. Bonta (see here), the original writ petition attacking California’s death penalty system as racially discriminatory, and for the fifth time there was no ruling. The case doesn’t appear on the list of today’s conference results.
Unless the court makes a rare non-conference-day ruling, it will be at least two weeks before we hear anything, because, with oral arguments on Wednesday, there’s no conference next week.
I really thought today would be the day we’d see both a decision about what the court wants to do with the petition, and, probably, one or more separate statements.
