No. 18-901

Kaylen DeWayne Simmons v. Texas

Lower Court: Texas
Docketed: 2019-01-11
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: affirmative-defense affirmative-defenses constitutional-review court-of-appeals due-process due-process,civil-procedure,affirmative-defenses,i factual-sufficiency factual-sufficiency-review impossibility indigency precedent-conflict
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Latest Conference: 2019-03-15
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming in part the judgments of the trial court by not performing the constitutionally mandated factual sufficiency review of the Petitioner's affirmative defenses of indigency and impossibility

Question Presented (from Petition)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1) Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming in part the judgments of the trial court by not performing the constitutionally mandated factual sufficiency review of the Petitioner’s affirmative defenses of indigency and impossibility. 2) Concerning the Petitioner’s affirmative defense of indigency, whether the Court of Appeals’ opinion conflicts with the Court’s binding precedent, the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas’ binding precedent as well as the precedent of the courts of last resort in several states.

Docket Entries

2019-03-18
Petition DENIED.
2019-02-27
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/15/2019.
2019-01-08
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 11, 2019)

Attorneys

Kaylen DeWayne Simmons
Joseph Rutherford Willie IIWILLIE & ASSOCIATES, P.C., Petitioner
Joseph Rutherford Willie IIWILLIE & ASSOCIATES, P.C., Petitioner