penalty-enhancement

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6123 Michael Ray Senn v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status penalty-enhancement sexual-assault Does a penalty provision of the Texas sexual assault statute that increases penalties based on marital status violate the Equal Protection Clause of t…
20-8293 Louis John Fontanez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2255-motion 21-usc-841 but-for-causation criminal-procedure due-process expert-witness expert-witnesses habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel penalty-enhancement Was counsel constitutionally ineffective because he failed to consult or hire expert witnesses to investigate the but-for causation of the victim's in…