No. 21-5424

Victor H. Canales v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2021-08-20
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: actual-innocence civil-procedure criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings legal-counsel post-conviction-relief standing
Latest Conference: 2021-10-15
Question Presented (from Petition)

Whether prosecutors, courts, and state officials violated the Fourteenth Amendment and state law by conducting proceedings following arrests and charges without providing notice of the right to counsel, in violation of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel within states and whether the state must provide notice of the right to counsel to defendants arrested and charged with crimes.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Question not identified

Docket Entries

2021-10-18
Petition DENIED.
2021-09-30
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/15/2021.
2021-06-23
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 20, 2021)

Attorneys

Victor H. Canales
Victor H. Canales — Petitioner