No. 21-5799

Robert Ronald Perales v. Texas

Lower Court: Texas
Docketed: 2021-09-28
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process entrapment law-enforcement online-persona outrageous-government-conduct
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2021-11-19
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Did these police actions constitute outrageous government conduct?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED Outrageous government conduct exists when the actions of law enforcement are shocking to the universal sense of justice. Outrageous government conduct is a due process violation that bars the government from invoking judicial process to obtain a conviction. Here, police created an online persona with an intentionally ambiguous age and then arrested a man for child solicitation when he flirted with the persona. Did these police actions constitute outrageous government conduct? 2

Docket Entries

2021-11-22
Petition DENIED.
2021-11-03
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/19/2021.
2021-10-28
Waiver of right of respondent State of Texas to respond filed.
2021-09-22
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 28, 2021)

Attorneys

Robert Ronald Perales
Theodore Lee WoodHarris County Public Defende's Office, Petitioner
State of Texas
Clinton A. MorganHarris County District Attorney's Office, Respondent