law-of-parties
7 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6793 | Roman Flores v. Texas | Texas | 2026-02-11 | Pending | IFP | autonomy-right capital-murder criminal-defense guilt-concession law-of-parties sixth-amendment | 1. Whether McCoy v. Louisiana prohibits only explicit admissions of guilt, or also bars functional concessions — such as conceding elements, condition… |
| 23-635 | Steven LaWayne Nelson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-13 | Denied | 28-usc-2254 capital-murder circuit-split claim-preclusion culpability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-of-parties relitigation-bar sentencing-procedure | Has a claim been 'adjudicated on the merits' in state court under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) when it consists wholly of allegations the state court never con… | |
| 22-7382 | Tarus Vandell Sales v. Texas | Texas | 2023-04-26 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus law-of-parties sixth-amendment tison-v-arizona | Whether Mr. Sales's death sentence violates the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 21-6434 | Robert Alan Fratta v. Texas | Texas | 2021-11-29 | Denied | IFP | aiding-and-abetting constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus indictment jury-charge jury-instructions law-of-parties | Can a law of parties (or aiding and abetting) be added to a jury charge when a person is indicted as the only actor to commit an offense? |
| 21-6073 | John Ray Falk, Jr. v. Texas | Texas | 2021-10-27 | Denied | IFP | accomplice-liability capital-murder capital-punishment criminal-liability due-process guilty-plea law-of-parties notice plea-bargaining pro-se pro-se-defendant | Whether a pro se defendant must be informed of the prosecution's theory of his own criminal liability when pleading guilty to a death-eligible homicid… |
| 19-7308 | Jerry Lynn McGavitt v. Texas | Texas | 2020-01-17 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment criminal-law criminal-mental-state due-process jury-charge jury-instructions law-of-parties mens-rea murder murder-prosecution | Whether the failure to limit the definitions, in the abstract portion of the jury charge, of 'Intentionally' and 'Knowingly' to the nature of the cond… |
| 18-8561 | Jeffery Lee Wood v. Texas | Texas | 2019-03-26 | Denied | IFP | culpability death-penalty death-penalty-eligibility due-process eighth-amendment enmund-v-florida fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness law-of-parties tison-v-arizona | Whether the petitioner is categorically ineligible for the death penalty because he lacked the requisite minimal culpability under the Eight and Fourt… |