This week’s edition of Daily Journal writer John Roemer’s “The Doghouse Report” (see here) is titled, “Inside the California Supreme Court’s uneasy return to capital punishment.”
It’s mostly about this: “Two major decisions face the high court: the constitutionality of the Racial Justice Act of 2020, and the fate of an audacious original writ petition by death penalty foes, filed in 2024, challenging capital punishment on equal protection grounds due to an alleged record of racial bias in its application.”
Related:
Significant supplemental Racial Justice Act briefing ordered in three death penalty cases
Another no-ruling conference for anti-death-penalty writ petition (see here)
Heavyweight writ petition asks Supreme Court to declare death penalty unconstitutional
