No. 18-6075
IFP
Tags: adversarial-testing capital-punishment criminal-justice-system-legitimacy criminal-liability death-penalty due-process fairness false-theory-of-liability miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-review
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus Punishment Securities
DueProcess HabeasCorpus Punishment Securities
Latest Conference:
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Question Presented (from Petition)
This case weaves these threads together and asks whether due process requires a state post-conviction review process in those rare instances where a State has repudiated a false theory on a new theory of liability that was never subjected to an adversarial testing.
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether due process requires a state post-conviction review process when a state has repudiated a false theory of criminal liability on which it based a death sentence, but intends to carry out that sentence based on a new theory of liability that was never subjected to adversarial testing
Docket Entries
2018-09-27
Application (18A310) referred to the Court.
2018-09-27
Petition DENIED.
2018-09-27
Application (18A310) denied by the Court.
2018-09-25
Brief of respondent Texas in opposition filed.
2018-09-25
Response to application from respondent Texas filed.
2018-09-25
Reply of petitioner Daniel C. Acker filed.
2018-09-21
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 22, 2018)
2018-09-21
Application (18A310) for a stay of execution of sentence of death, submitted to Justice Alito.
Attorneys
Daniel Acker
Allen Richard Ellis — Law Office of A. Richard Ellis, Petitioner
State of Texas
Ellen Stewart-Klein — Office of the Attorney General of Texas, Respondent