No. 20-448

Kenneth Ray Strickland v. Texas

Lower Court: Texas
Docketed: 2020-10-08
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: appellate-review assault corpus-delicti directed-verdict due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel summary-rejection summation trial-counsel
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus CriminalProcedure
Latest Conference: 2020-12-11
Question Presented (from Petition)

I. Whether it violates due process for an appellate court to reject without explanation a trial court's favorable dispositive fact findings that were based, in part, on its personal recollection of the trial.

II. Whether the TCCA's summary rejection of the trial court's findings and conclusions that trial counsel was ineffective by failing to move for a directed verdict and conceding guilt during summation misapplied this Court's ineffective assistance of counsel precedent.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the appellate court's rejection of the trial court's favorable fact findings violated due process

Docket Entries

2020-12-14
Petition DENIED.
2020-11-24
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/11/2020.
2020-10-02
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 9, 2020)

Attorneys

Kenneth Strickland
Randolph L. Schaffer Jr.Randy Schaffer P.C., Petitioner