No. 24-164

Aaron York Dean v. Texas

Lower Court: Texas
Docketed: 2024-08-15
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment grand-jury-indictment lesser-included-offense sixth-amendment
Key Terms:
DueProcess FifthAmendment Securities
Latest Conference: 2024-09-30
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does Grey v. State violate constitutional due process and equal protection by allowing the State unequal procedural rights in submitting lesser-included offenses?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED Does Grey v. State, 298 S.W.3d 644 (Tex. Crim. App. 2009) violate the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the United States Constitution by allowing the State to submit a lesser-included offense to the jury merely by requesting it while the defendant must show some evidence in the record suggesting that defendant is guilty, if he is, of only the lesser-included offense? Does Grey v. State, 298 S.W.3d 644 (Tex. Crim. App. 2009) violate the Fifth Amendment’s requirement of a grand jury indictment and the Sixth Amendment’s requirement of notice of the charges by allowing the State to add a lesser-included charge at the conclusion of trial merely on request?

Docket Entries

2024-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2024-08-21
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/30/2024.
2024-08-19
Waiver of Texas of right to respond submitted.
2024-08-19
Waiver of right of respondent Texas to respond filed.
2024-08-13
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 16, 2024)

Attorneys

Aaron York Dean
Leigh Warren DavisLeigh Warren Davis, Petitioner
Texas
Victoria Ann Ford OblonTarrant County Criminal District Attorney's Office, Respondent