In re Ramirez’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “beg[a]n with an overarching, dispositive point: Federal due process guarantees require reversal of [a] special circumstance finding [that is not supported by substantial evidence] regardless of the Attorney General's California-law-based procedural arguments.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 246 Cal. Rptr. 3d 342 - In re Taylor

2. “[w]ere there a valid procedural bar, we would have expected [our state] Supreme Court to deny the petition rather than issuing an order to show cause returnable before this court.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 246 Cal. Rptr. 3d 342 - In re Taylor

3. “actively involved in every element of the kidnaping-robbery and physically present during the entire sequence of criminal activity,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 246 Cal. Rptr. 3d 342 - In re Taylor