No. 19-336

Keith Chester Hill v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-09-12
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: capital-sentencing discretionary-sentencing fifth-circuit glover-v-united-states habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis reasonable-probability sentencing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington
Latest Conference: 2019-10-11
Question Presented (from Petition)

Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that, to demonstrate that counsel was ineffective at a state, non-capital, discretionary sentencing proceeding, the petitioner must show a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's errors, his sentence would have been "significantly less harsh."

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that, to demonstrate that counsel was ineffective at a state, non-capital, discretionary sentencing proceeding, the petitioner must show a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's errors, his sentence would have been 'significantly less harsh'

Docket Entries

2019-10-15
Petition DENIED.
2019-09-18
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/11/2019.
2019-09-16
Waiver of right of respondent Lorie Davis to respond filed.
2019-09-09
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 15, 2019)

Attorneys

Keith Chester Hill
Randolph L. Schaffer Jr. — Petitioner
Lorie Davis
Kyle Douglas HawkinsOffice of the Texas Attorney General, Respondent