No. 19-6875
Travis Trevino Runnels v. Texas
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
DueProcess HabeasCorpus Punishment Securities
Latest Conference:
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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
Travis Runnels
Mark Jason Pickett — Center for Death Penalty Litigation, Inc., Petitioner