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Arizona’s Attorney General is hoping to preserve the death sentence of Arizona inmate David Ramirez and reinstate the first degree murder conviction of Arizona inmate Barry Jones. The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) consolidated the defendants’ two cases in January 2021.
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider the cases.
In 1989, Ramirez murdered Mary Ann Gortarez and her 15-year-old daughter. He stabbed the mother and daughter to death. Later he also admitted that he had had sex with the 15-year-old girl the night of the murders.
The Arizona courts consistently denied relief to Ramirez, upholding his murder convictions and death sentences. The Ninth Circuit, however, remanded his case to the federal district court, finding that there is a “reasonable probability” that Ramirez’s sentencing would have been different if his attorney at the time had presented evidence of the defendant’s low IQ and a history
Ninth Circuit eases path to citizenship for some children of naturalized U.S. citizens
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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said U.S. residents who were under 18 when a 1952 law was in effect were eligible for citizenship through their parents, protecting them from deportation.Gabrielle Lurie/The Chronicle
With key votes from two appointees of former President Donald Trump, a federal appeals court eased the path to citizenship Thursday for some children of naturalized U.S. citizens, protecting the youths from deportation if they are later convicted of crimes.
The case before the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco involved the meaning of a former law that set conditions for immigrant children residing legally in the United States to become citizens after their parents obtain citizenship.