No. 18-7091

Steven Anthony Butler v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2018-12-18
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: capital-punishment capital-sentencing competence competency-evaluation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation judicial-process judicial-review mental-competence mental-health mitigating-evidence procedural-fairness
Key Terms:
HabeasCorpus Punishment JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2019-04-12
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. When, in reviewing the two-part claim that trial counsel was ineffective both for
failing to provide known, relevant information to mental health ex perts appointed to determine
Butler's trial competence, and for failing altog ether to conduct any investig ation of B utler's
competence, the court of appeals recasts the claim as solely a failure to provide known
information to the appointed ex perts, then denies that un-presented claim, must the Court
exercise its supervisory power to assure the fairness of the judicial process?

2. When, in reviewing the claim that trial counsel was ineffective for failing
altog ether to conduct any investig ation of B utler's mental health afflictions as mitig ating
evidence, the court of appeals wholly mis-characteriz es the mitig ating evidence that reasonable
investig ation would have found and then analy zes the prejudice associated with counsel's
deficient performance ag ainst a state law framework that was not the law at the time B utler was
tried, must the Court ex ercise its supervisory power to assure the fairness of the judicial process?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

When must the Court exercise its supervisory power to assure the fairness of the judicial process?

Docket Entries

2019-04-15
Petition DENIED.
2019-03-28
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/12/2019.
2019-03-21
Reply of petitioner Steven Anthony Butler filed.
2019-03-15
Brief of respondent Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division in opposition filed.
2019-02-11
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including March 18, 2019.
2019-02-07
Motion to extend the time to file a response from February 15, 2019 to March 18, 2019, submitted to The Clerk.
2019-01-10
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including February 15, 2019.
2019-01-08
Motion to extend the time to file a response from January 17, 2019 to February 15, 2019, submitted to The Clerk.
2018-12-10
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due January 17, 2019)

Attorneys

Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division
Katherine Diane HayesAttorney General of Texas, Respondent
Steven Anthony Butler
Richard H. Burr IIIBurr and Welch, PC, Petitioner