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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-7426 Stephen Lynn Buggs v. Texas Texas 2025-06-16 Denied IFP constitutional-claims federal-constitutional-rights fundamental-issues judicial-review subsequent-writs texas-court-of-criminal-appeals Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals err in refusing to consider petitioner's claims where he alleged fundamental and federal constitutional issues…
23-7479 Ronald Lee Howard v. Texas Texas 2024-05-14 Denied IFP appeal appellate-procedure constitutional-rights discretionary-review douglas due-process evitts fourteenth-amendment griffin state-court texas-court-of-criminal-appeals Is procedural due process violated regarding the constitutional requirement of a meaningful or effective appeal of right under Evitts, Griffin and Dou…
23A236 Rodney Reed v. Texas Texas 2023-09-12 Presumed Complete actual-innocence due-process habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence postconviction-relief texas-court-of-criminal-appeals Whether a state court's denial of postconviction relief based on newly discovered evidence of actual innocence violates the Due Process Clause or cons…
21-5420 Naim Rasool Muhammad v. Texas Texas 2021-08-20 Denied IFP burden-of-proof capital-case constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice preponderance-of-the-evidence strickland-standard strickland-v-washington texas-court-of-criminal-appeals Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals erred in denying Naim Rasool Muhammad's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel under Strickland v. Was…
20-7017 Dennis Martin Beyer, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2021-02-02 Denied IFP constitutional-requirement continuous-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process jury-conviction jury-unanimity sixth-amendment texas-court-of-criminal-appeals Does the constitutional requirement of jury unanimity require a jury to be unanimous as to specific acts of sexual abuse in order to convict a defenda…
19-5544 Overille Denton Thompson, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2019-08-09 Denied IFP appellate-review barker-default constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process fundamental-right lower-courts presumption-against-waiver procedural-default speedy-trial texas-court-of-criminal-appeals Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals err in refusing to grant Mr. Thompson's petition for discretionary review, and therefore, sanction the lower c…
18-9273 Billy Joe Wardlow v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied IFP adequate-state-ground adequate-state-procedural-ground capital-case capital-habeas capital-habeas-case-appeal certificate-of-appealability due-process-right-to-present-evidence federal-habeas fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presumption-of-correctness state-habeas state-habeas-proceedings state-procedural-ground texas-court-of-criminal-appeals Whether the Fifth Circuit violated the standard for determining a Certificate of Appealability
18-8936 William Arthur McIntosh v. Texas Texas 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan newly-available-evidence schlup-v-delo state-court-review successive-writ supreme-court-precedent texas-code-of-criminal-procedure texas-court-of-criminal-appeals trevino-v-thaler Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rule adversely by denying Petitioners successive writ of habeas corpus when he presented newly available evide…
18-7789 Ashley Richards v. Texas Texas 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus retroactivity sentencing-enhancement state-jail-felony statutory-enhancement statutory-interpretation texas-court-of-criminal-appeals Whether the Eighth Amendment requires retroactive application of a court decision finding a sentencing enhancement inapplicable, thereby decreasing th…
18-7610 Michael Colbaugh v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied IFP equitable-exception federal-habeas-corpus federal-writ habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default state-writ texas-code-of-criminal-procedure texas-court-of-criminal-appeals trevino-exception trevino-v-thaler Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruling denying Petitioner a second Writ of Habeas Corpus is in error
18-7182 Roy Dean Gates v. Texas Texas 2018-12-27 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority jurisdiction texas-court-jurisdiction texas-court-of-criminal-appeals texas-supreme-court united-states-constitution-amendment-fourteen void-order Does the Texas court have authority to overrule a state supreme court order?
18-6353 Michael Joseph Bien v. Texas Texas 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process legal-precedent prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court supreme-court-jurisprudence supreme-court-precedent texas-court-of-criminal-appeals Whether a prosecutor who violates the Double Jeopardy Clause should have exclusive power to determine which of his unconstitutionally obtained convict…