No. 23-5682

Dillion Gage Compton v. Texas

Lower Court: Texas
Docketed: 2023-10-02
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Relisted (10)IFP
Tags: constitutional-law disparate-treatment equal-protection gender-discrimination jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes side-by-side-analysis trial-procedure
Key Terms:
DueProcess Punishment
Latest Conference: 2024-04-12 (distributed 10 times)
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a court's comparison of generalizations about all the female prospective jurors who were struck by the prosecution with generalizations about the male jurors not struck by the prosecution, rather than a side-by-side analysis of individual jurors, disregards the basic equal protection principle that one discriminatory strike is too many

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether a court’s comparison of generalizations about all the female prospective jurors who were struck by the prosecution with generalizations about the male jurors not struck by the prosecution, rather than a side-by-side analysis of individual jurors, disregards the basic equal protection principle that one discriminatory strike is too many. 2. Whether Texas exercised its peremptory strikes in a prohibited discriminatory fashion. ii

Docket Entries

2024-04-15
Petition DENIED. Justice Sotomayor, with whom Justice Jackson joins, dissenting from the denial of certiorari. (Detached <a href = 'https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-5682_pm02.pdf'>Opinion</a>)
2024-04-08
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/12/2024.
2024-03-25
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/28/2024.
2024-03-18
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/22/2024.
2024-03-11
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/15/2024.
2024-02-26
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/1/2024.
2024-02-20
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/23/2024.
2024-02-09
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/16/2024.
2024-01-16
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/19/2024.
2024-01-11
Electronic records received from the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
2024-01-08
Record Requested.
2024-01-08
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/12/2024.
2023-12-14
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/5/2024.
2023-11-28
2023-10-20
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including December 1, 2023.
2023-10-19
Motion to extend the time to file a response from November 1, 2023 to December 1, 2023, submitted to The Clerk.
2023-10-19
Waiver of Texas of right to respond filed October 13, 2023 removed from the docket as improperly filed. See Rule 15.1.
2023-09-28
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due November 1, 2023)
2023-08-18
Application (23A153) granted by Justice Alito extending the time to file until September 28, 2023.
2023-08-16
Application (23A153) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from August 29, 2023 to September 28, 2023, submitted to Justice Alito.

Attorneys

Dillion Gage Compton
Jennae Rose SwiergulaTexas Defender Service, Petitioner
Jennae Rose SwiergulaTexas Defender Service, Petitioner
Texas
Melinda FletcherSpecial Prosecution Unit, Respondent
Melinda FletcherSpecial Prosecution Unit, Respondent