No. 21-466

Eric DeWayne Cathey v. Texas

Lower Court: Texas
Docketed: 2021-09-28
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Amici (1)
Tags: capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability medical-criteria medical-standards precedent supreme-court-precedent
Latest Conference: 2022-02-18
Question Presented (from Petition)

Whether, in rejecting the detailed factfindings and legal conclusions of a state habeas trial court, disregarding medically accepted standards, and determining based on lay analysis that the petitioner is not intellectually disabled, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals yet again contravened the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments and this Court's precedents.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals contravened the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments and this Court's precedents in rejecting a trial court's conclusion that an individual is intellectually disabled and therefore may not be put to death by the state

Docket Entries

2022-02-22
Petition DENIED.
2022-01-26
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/18/2022.
2022-01-25
Reply of petitioner Eric DeWayne Cathey filed. (Distributed)
2022-01-06
Brief of respondent Texas in opposition filed.
2021-11-30
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including January 6, 2022.
2021-11-29
Motion to extend the time to file a response from December 7, 2021 to January 6, 2021, submitted to The Clerk.
2021-10-28
Brief amici curiae of Constitution Project, et al. filed.
2021-10-21
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including December 7, 2021.
2021-10-20
Motion to extend the time to file a response from October 28, 2021 to December 7, 2021, submitted to The Clerk.
2021-09-24
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 28, 2021)

Attorneys

Constitution Project and National Association of Social Workers Including Its Texas Chapter
Allison Okiyo Watkins MallickBaker Botts L.L.P., Amicus
Eric DeWayne Cathey
Layne E. KruseNorton Rose Fulbright US LLP, Petitioner
Texas
Jefferson David ClendeninOffice of the Attorney General of Texas, Respondent