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2 results for “Hector Acosta”

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24-5713 Hector Acosta v. Texas Texas 2024-10-07 Denied death-sentence due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment national-origin race-discrimination Whether the State's invocation of a defendant's nationality and ethnicity to obtain a death sentence violates the Equal Protection and Due Process Cla…
24A194 Hector Acosta v. Texas Texas 2024-08-22 Presumed Complete capital-murder death-sentence equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection racial-bias Whether racial bias in the jury selection process violated the defendant's Fourteenth Amendment right to equal protection in a capital murder case