No. 19-8712

Billy Joe Wardlow v. Texas

Lower Court: Texas
Docketed: 2020-06-15
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Amici (1)IFP
Tags: age-of-offender brain-development death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness neuroscience roper-v-simmons
Key Terms:
Punishment HabeasCorpus
Latest Conference: N/A
Related Cases: 19-8835 (Vide)
Question Presented (from Petition)

Whether, under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, Texas may continue to impose, and carry out previously imposed, death sentences for which future dangerousness is or was used to determine death eligibility for defendants who were under 21 years old at the time of the crime?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether Texas may continue to impose, and carry out previously imposed, death sentences for which future dangerousness is or was used to determine death eligibility for defendants who were under 21 years old at the time of the crime

Docket Entries

2020-07-08
Application (19A1064) referred to the Court.
2020-07-08
Petition DENIED.
2020-07-08
Application (19A1064) denied by the Court.
2020-07-01
Reply of petitioner Billy Joe Wardlow filed.
2020-06-30
Brief of respondent Texas in opposition filed.
2020-06-25
Application (19A1064) for a stay of execution of sentence of death, submitted to Justice Alito.
2020-06-19
Brief amici curiae of Professional Organizations, Practitioners, and Academics in the Fields of Neuroscience, Neuropsychology, and Other Related Fields filed.
2020-06-10
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due July 15, 2020)

Attorneys

Billy Joe Wardlow
Richard H. Burr IIIBurr and Welch, PC, Petitioner
Professional Organizations, Practitioners, and Academics in the Fields of Neuroscience, Neuropsychology, and Other Related Fields
Seth P. WaxmanWilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Amicus
State of Texas
Gwendolyn Suzanne VindellTexas Attorney General's Office, Respondent