No. 23-5375

Isidro Miguel Delacruz v. Texas

Lower Court: Texas
Docketed: 2023-08-17
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: 8th-amendment capital-sentencing constitutional-proportionality death-penalty due-process jury-instructions mitigation-evidence moral-culpability
Key Terms:
DueProcess Punishment
Latest Conference: 2023-11-17
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Can the Texas death penalty statute be reconciled with this Court's long-established mitigation jurisprudence?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

Question Presented is: Can the Texas death penalty statute, which instructs the jury to consider “the circumstances of the offense, the defendant’s character and background, and the personal moral culpability of the defendant,” but then limits the scope of the evidence that jurors consider mitigating to “evidence that a juror might regard as reducing the defendant’s moral blameworthiness,” be reconciled with this Court’s long-established mitigation jurisprudence? i

Docket Entries

2023-11-20
Petition DENIED.
2023-11-02
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/17/2023.
2023-11-01
2023-10-17
Brief of respondent Texas in opposition filed.
2023-09-12
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including October 18, 2023.
2023-09-11
Motion to extend the time to file a response from September 18, 2023 to October 18, 2023, submitted to The Clerk.
2023-08-14
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 18, 2023)

Attorneys

Isidro Delacruz
Hilary SheardLaw Office of Hilary Sheard, Petitioner
Hilary SheardLaw Office of Hilary Sheard, Petitioner
Texas
Jefferson David ClendeninOffice of the Attorney General of Texas, Respondent
Jefferson David ClendeninOffice of the Attorney General of Texas, Respondent
Katie AbellOffice of the Attorney General of Texas, Respondent
Katie AbellOffice of the Attorney General of Texas, Respondent