No. 23-7000

Jereme Lee Escobedo v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2024-03-15
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fifth-circuit-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-bias sex-crimes sixth-amendment
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2024-05-16
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does a criminal defendant charged with sex-crimes have the same Constitutional rights as a defendant charged with non-sex-crimes?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED ; QUESTION ONE: : . : Does a criminal defendant charged with sex-crimes have the same Constitutional rights as a defendant charged with non-sex-crimes? QUESTION TWO: Does a criminal defendant charged with a sex-crime have the . constitutional right to: 1) "effective assistance of counsel;" *~ 2) "to be tried by a jury free from potential bias from family relationships to the parties; and 3) "to be the master of his own defense including voir dire?" ; QUESTION THREE: Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals "side-step" the COA inquiry by holding: "He has not made the necessary showing" that -— reasonable jurists would find the District Court's assessment of the constitutional claims debatable or wrong?" Seg. SID

Docket Entries

2024-05-20
Petition DENIED.
2024-05-01
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/16/2024.
2024-03-08
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 15, 2024)
2024-01-09
Application (23A635) granted by Justice Alito extending the time to file until March 31, 2024.
2023-12-20
Application (23A635) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from January 31, 2024 to March 31, 2024, submitted to Justice Alito.

Attorneys

Jereme L. Escobedo
Jereme Lee Escobedo — Petitioner