No. 24-6756

Marcus Leshun Sargent v. Texas

Lower Court: Texas
Docketed: 2025-03-12
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection extraneous-offense ineffective-assistance
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2025-05-15
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the admission of extraneous sexual offense evidence violated the petitioner's due process and equal protection rights, and constituted ineffective assistance of counsel

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

Due to the inherently inflammatory and prejudicial nature of sexual offenses against children, with its tendency to suggest a verdict on an improper basis, was the petitioner's due process and equal protection rights violated by Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Ann. art. 38.37? Was trial counsel constitutionally ineffective because he failed to raise a due process and equal protection objection? Did the trial court commit reversible error by finding that the evidence of an extraneous offense would be sufficient, that a jury would find the accused guilty of the extraneous offense, beyond a reasonable doubt, based solely upon the alleged victim's testimony alone? 2.

Docket Entries

2025-05-19
Petition DENIED.
2025-04-24
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/15/2025.
2025-01-07
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 11, 2025)

Attorneys

Marcus Leshun Sargent
Marcus Leshun Sargent — Petitioner