No. 19-1311

Douglas Lynn Kirk v. Texas

Lower Court: Texas
Docketed: 2020-05-22
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: constitutional-rights criminal-defense due-process evidence-subpoena government-agency ineffective-assistance legal-procedure mitigating-evidence public-records subpoena
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: 2020-09-29
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a criminal-defense attorney who requests critical defensive evidence from a government agency but fails to subpoena the evidence after the request is denied or ignored has provided effective assistance of counsel?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED In Rompilla v. Beard, 545 U.S. 374 (2005), this Court held that a criminal-defense attorney who investigated mitigating evidence but failed to find valuable public records provided ineffective assistance. If a criminal-defense attorney requests critical defensive evidence from a government agency but then fails to subpoena the evidence after the request is denied or ignored, has counsel provided effective assistance? 2

Docket Entries

2020-10-05
Petition DENIED.
2020-06-17
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2020.
2020-06-12
Waiver of right of respondent Texas to respond filed.
2020-05-19
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 22, 2020)

Attorneys

Douglas Lynn Kirk
Gary Alan UdashenUdashen | Anton, Petitioner
Gary Alan UdashenUdashen | Anton, Petitioner
Texas
Andrea JacobsTarrant County Criminal District Attorney's Office, Respondent
Andrea JacobsTarrant County Criminal District Attorney's Office, Respondent