punishment-phase
2 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20-6230 | Ulis Howard Alexander v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | corpus-delicti criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-procedure fifth-circuit legal-error punishment-phase sentencing | Did the Fifth Circuit err in holding that the concept of corpus delicti should not apply in the punishment phase? |
| 18-9614 | Rick Allen Rhoades v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-12 | Denied | IFP | 8th-amendment capital-murder due-process jury-consideration jury-instructions mitigating-evidence punishment-phase structural-error trial-procedure | Is the exclusion of relevant mitigating evidence during the punishment phase of a capital murder trial structural error, when the wrongfully excluded … |