No. 20-156

Kevin Edward Connors v. Texas

Lower Court: Texas
Docketed: 2020-08-13
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: brady-v-maryland brady-violation cold-record credibility-determinations due-process fact-finding habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility
Latest Conference: 2020-10-16
Question Presented (from Petition)

I. Whether it violates due process for a superior court to substitute its own unfavorable fact findings based on a cold record for an inferior court's favorable dispositive fact findings that were based on witness credibility and demeanor.

II. Whether the TCCA's one-sentence, summary materiality analysis misapplied this Court's Brady v. Maryland jurisprudence in view of the evidence that six undisclosed police reports demonstrating the complainant's recent history of violence and suicidal ideation were material to petitioner's conviction and sentence.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

whether-due-process-prohibits-superior-court-from-rejecting-inferior-court's-fact-findings-based-on-credibility

Docket Entries

2020-10-19
Petition DENIED.
2020-09-30
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/16/2020.
2020-08-07
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 14, 2020)

Attorneys

Kevin Edward Connors
Josh Barrett SchafferSchaffer Law Offices, Petitioner