| 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 |
| 19-7481 |
Patrick Henry Murphy v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 capital-murder capital-punishment constitutional-law death-penalty due-process enmund-v-florida federal-habeas jury-determination jury-trial sentencing tison-v-arizona |
Does Ring dictate that a jury determine whether a capital murder defendant is eligible for a sentence of death under Enmund and Tison, and, if so, is … |
| 18-9676 |
Randy Ethan Halprin v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254(d)(2) aedpa aedpa-deference capital-punishment-eligibility certificate-of-appealability enmund-v-florida habeas-corpus lockett-v-ohio merits-review procedural-default tison-v-arizona |
Whether the Fifth Circuit contravened this Court's precedents in Buck, Miller-El, and Slack by first deciding the merits of Mr. Halprin's claims befor… |
| 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… |