No. 24-5753

Robert Leslie Roberson III v. Texas

Lower Court: Texas
Docketed: 2024-10-15
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: actual-innocence capital-punishment due-process habeas-corpus procedural-bar scientific-evidence
Key Terms:
DueProcess JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the TCCA's unexplained application of a procedural bar violates the federal due process clause when a capital state habeas applicant asserts actual innocence based on substantial new scientific and medical evidence that was unavailable when the last application was filed?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

Question Presented: Whether the TCCA’s unexplained application of a procedural bar violates the federal due process clause when a capital state habeas applicant asserts actual innocence based on substantial new scientific and medical evidence that was unavailable when the last application was filed? ii

Docket Entries

2024-10-17
Reply of petitioner Robert Roberson filed.
2024-10-17
Application (24A349) referred to the Court.
2024-10-17
Petition DENIED. (Detached Opinion)
2024-10-17
Application (24A349) for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice Alito and by him referred to the Court is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied. Statement of Justice Sotomayor respecting the denial of the application for stay of execution and denial of certiorari. (Detached <a href = 'https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a349_8m58.pdf'>Opinion</a>)
2024-10-16
Brief of respondent Texas in opposition filed.
2024-10-15
2024-10-15
Application (24A349) for a stay of execution of sentence of death, submitted to Justice Alito.

Attorneys

Robert Roberson
Gretchen S. Sween — Petitioner
Texas
Craig William CosperTexas Attorney General's Office, Respondent