| 25A201 |
Michael Donell Glover v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-08-20 |
Presumed Complete |
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criminal-law deadly-weapon pocketknife serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code |
Whether a pocketknife can categorically qualify as a 'deadly weapon' under Texas law when its potential for causing serious bodily injury depends on t… |
| 24-7172 |
Erick Alfredo Peralta v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-murder criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment life-without-parole proportionality texas-penal-code |
Does the Eighth Amendment prohibit disproportionate sentences, specifically Life Without Parole for capital murder under Texas law when intent is remo… |
| 24-6758 |
Matias P. Briones v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-03-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process non-unanimous-jury ramos-precedent texas-penal-code |
Whether Texas Penal Code 21.02 violates the 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendments by allowing non-unanimous jury instructions for finding guilt and predicate … |
| 22-7079 |
Henry Joseph Stevens v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-statute due-process federal-courts physical-force state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code violent-felony |
Whether the ACCA's demand for certainty constrains a federal court's interpretation of conflicting state-law decisions |
| 22-202 |
Leonardo Nuncio v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-09-06 |
Denied |
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constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech harassment-statute obscenity obscenity-test overbreadth texas-penal-code vagueness |
Is Texas's obscene harassment statute unconstitutionally vague and overbroad? |
| 22-5159 |
Eddie Lamont Lipscomb v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act demand-for-certainty federal-courts mens-rea state-criminal-law state-law statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code violent-felony |
When evaluating whether a state-law offense satisfies the Armed Career Criminal Act's definition of a 'violent felony,' 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B), fede… |
| 21-7929 |
Johnny Joe Avalos v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-murder cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability life-without-parole mitigating-circumstances sentencing texas-penal-code |
Whether an ALWOP sentence on an intellectually disabled adult convicted of capital murder as provided by Texas Penal Code Section 12.31(a)(2) a statut… |
| 21-7586 |
Jaako Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing generic-offense robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code texas-robbery violent-crime |
Whether Texas robbery is a crime of violence under the United States Sentencing Guideline § 4B1.2's generic, enumerated offenses clause |
| 21-6230 |
In Re Billy John Roberson |
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2021-11-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment aggravated-assault conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency judicial-conflict jury-instructions penal-code texas-penal-code |
Whether the petitioner was wrongfully convicted of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon despite not owning or having access to a firearm |
| 21-5975 |
Modesto Balderas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-14 |
GVR |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states criminal-procedure records-of-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement simple-robbery texas-penal-code violent-felony |
Whether the Texas offense of Simple Robbery, Tex. Penal Code §29.02(a) constitutes a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. §… |
| 20-7984 |
Eddie Lamont Lipscomb v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-11 |
GVR |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split civil-rights due-process physical-contact physical-force robbery texas-penal-code use-of-force violent-felony |
Whether Texas simple robbery remains a violent felony |
| 20-7731 |
Rodney Bernard Allen v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury certificate-of-appealability elements-clause fifth-circuit johnson-rule reckless-conduct successive-habeas-petition successive-motion texas-penal-code texas-robbery |
Whether Texas robbery under Tex. Penal Code § 29.02(a) is categorically violent under the ACCA's elements clause |
| 20-973 |
Ricky Haywood-Watson v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-01-15 |
Denied |
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apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-guarantee continuous-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure jury-unanimity ramos-v-louisiana richardson-v-united-states schad-v-arizona sexual-abuse texas-penal-code |
Does Section 21.02(d) of the Texas Penal Code violate the constitutional guarantee of jury unanimity? |
| 20-6773 |
Artavius Dontrell Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split fair-warning reckless-causation serious-bodily-injury texas-penal-code texas-robbery theft violent-felony |
Is Texas aggravated robbery a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act? |
| 20-6225 |
Michael David Lister v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split fair-warning reckless-causation serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation texas-assault texas-penal-code violent-felony |
Is Texas aggravated assault a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act? |
| 19-7684 |
Jeremy Glenn Powell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-18 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act due-process fifth-amendment fifth-circuit physical-force reckless reckless-offenses statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code texas-robbery violent-felony |
Whether the Texas offense of simple robbery qualifies as a 'violent felony' under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 19-6450 |
Sherif Sayed Mahmoud v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutionality content-based-restriction due-process first-amendment free-speech penal-code standard-of-review standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions texas-penal-code |
Whether Section 33.021 of the Texas Penal Code is a content-based restriction |
| 19-5199 |
Billy John Roberson v. Rowlett Police Department, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment 2nd-amendment-rights absence-from-crime-scene aggravated-assault-elements assault-elements burden-of-proof conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process insufficient-evidence penal-code second-amendment sentencing-issues standing texas texas-penal-code |
Whether the petitioner received a guilty verdict of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon despite not owning or having access to a firearm |
| 18-7719 |
Cesar Gomez v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment-rights standing texas-penal-code |
Whether Texas Penal Code § 21.02, is Constitutional under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution? |
| 18-6950 |
Jason Wayne McBride v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-intent criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment-amendment mens-rea speedy-trial statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code |
Did the state decide an important Constitutional Double Jeopardy violation that conflicted with another Court and the Supreme Court? |
| 18-445 |
Tanya Ramirez v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
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civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process equal-protection fundamental-right fundamental-rights intimacy legal-infringement privacy procreation sexual-conduct sexual-relationship texas-penal-code |
Is Texas Penal Code §21.12, which criminalizes an otherwise legal sexual relationship, unconstitutional in its infringement upon a constitutionally-pr… |
| 18-5355 |
Del Ray Sanders v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
accidental-death criminal-procedure criminally-negligent-homicide due-process homicide-charges jury-instructions lesser-included-offense lesser-included-offenses manslaughter standard-of-review texas-penal-code trial-court-discretion unreasonable-application-of-federal-law |
Whether the trial court erred in denying the defendant's request for jury instructions on the lesser-included offenses of manslaughter and criminally … |