No. 20-1147

Thomas Jefferson Smallwood v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2021-02-22
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: certificate-of-appealability compulsory-process confrontation confrontation-clause fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus Punishment
Latest Conference: 2021-04-23
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Should a certificate of appealability issue

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED Should a certificate of appealability issue to determine if defense counsel was ineffective in not making an objection to the exclusion of testimony from three witnesses concerning acts of dishonesty by the child complainant on the basis that the exclusion violated Smallwood's right to compulsory process and confrontation under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? 2

Docket Entries

2021-04-26
Petition DENIED.
2021-04-07
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/23/2021.
2021-02-12
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 24, 2021)

Attorneys

Thomas Smallwood
Gary Alan UdashenUdashen | Anton, Petitioner
Gary Alan UdashenUdashen | Anton, Petitioner