No. 25-6980
Tags: Brady-violation due-process habeas-corpus postconviction-review prosecutorial-misconduct state-created-liberty-interest
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Question Presented (from Petition)
Whether a State violates due process by barring access to its postconviction review procedures —thereby depriving a prisoner of a state -created liberty interest—when it refuses to consider a claim that could not meaningfully have been raised in earlier proceedings because the State alone possessed and wi thheld material evidence supporting it.
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether a State violates due process by barring access to postconviction review procedures when it refuses to consider a claim that could not meaningfully have been raised in earlier proceedings because the State alone possessed and withheld material evidence supporting it
Docket Entries
2026-03-11
Petition DENIED.
2026-03-11
Application (25A983) referred to the Court.
2026-03-11
Application (25A983) 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.
2026-03-09
Brief of respondent Texas in opposition filed.
2026-03-09
Reply of Cedric Ricks submitted.
2026-03-09
Reply of petitioner Cedric Ricks filed.
2026-03-06
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed.
2026-03-06
Application (25A983) for a stay of execution of sentence of death, submitted to Justice Alito.
2026-03-06
Amicus brief of Fair and Just Prosecution submitted.
Attorneys
Cedric Ricks
Fair and Just Prosecution
John Robert Mills — Phillips Black, Inc., Amicus
Texas