No. 19-6875

Travis Trevino Runnels v. Texas

Lower Court: Texas
Docketed: 2019-12-06
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: circuit-split constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process expert-testimony expert-witness false-expert-testimony false-testimony prosecution-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct texas-death-penalty
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus Punishment Securities
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the use of false expert testimony to obtain a death sentence violates due process, regardless of the prosecution's knowledge of the falsity

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

ESTION PRESENTED: I. WHETHER CERTIORARI SHOULD BE GRANTED TO RECOGNIZE (AS HAS BEEN DETERMINED BY TWO CIRCUITS) THAT IT IS A DUE PROCESS VIOLATION WHEN THE PROSECUTION USES FALSE EXPERT TESTIMONY TO OBTAIN A DEATH SENTENCE, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THE PROSECUTION KNOWS OF THE FALSITY i

Docket Entries

2019-12-11
Application (19A639) referred to the Court.
2019-12-11
Petition DENIED.
2019-12-11
Application (19A639) denied by the Court.
2019-12-09
Brief of respondent Texas in opposition filed.
2019-12-06
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due January 6, 2020)
2019-12-06
Application (19A639) for a stay of execution of sentence of death, submitted to Justice Alito.

Attorneys

Texas
Jefferson David ClendeninOffice of the Attorney General of Texas, Respondent
Travis Runnels
Mark Jason PickettCenter for Death Penalty Litigation, Inc., Petitioner