No. 21-7618

Tony Gene Williams, Sr. v. Texas

Lower Court: Texas
Docketed: 2022-04-13
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Relisted (2)IFP
Tags: confrontation-clause due-process habeas-corpus hearsay-testimony insufficient-evidence jailhouse-snitch newly-discovered-evidence sixth-amendment
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2022-09-28 (distributed 2 times)
Question Presented (from Petition)

WHETHER OR NOT JUDGE MCCLURE OF THE TEXAS COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS, AFTER EXAMINING PETITIONER'S APPEAL, ERRED WHEN HE DETERMINED HE WOULD GRANT P.D.R.;

1. WHETHER OR NOT THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE OF THE 14th AMENDMENT WAS BREACHED WHEN THERE DO NOT PATENTLY EXIST SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE TO ESTABLISH EVERY ELEMENT OF THE OFFENSE CHARGED;

2. WHETHER OR NOT THE COURT OF APPEALS ABUSED ITS DISCRETION WHEN IT FAILED TO "ABATE" APPEAL, AFTER BOTH THE STATE AND DEFENSE FILED A "JOINT MOTION TO ABATE APPEAL", AFTER DISCOVERY OF "NEWLY AVAILABLE EVIDENCE" OF EXCULPATORY DNA RESULTS, LINKING SOMEONE ELSE TO THE OFFENSE?

3. WHETHER OR NOT PETITIONER WAS DEPRIVED OF THE DUE PROCESS GUARANTEE WHEN TRIAL COURT PERMITTED INTO EVIDENCE THE NON-CORROBORATED TESTIMONY OF A JAILHOUSE SNITCH?

4. WHETHER OR NOT THE LOWER COURT ERRED AND ABUSED ITS DISCRETION IN NOT DETERMINING THE TRIAL COURT VIOLATED THE "CONFRONTATION CLAUSE" BY PERMITTING "HEARSAY" TESTIMONY.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the lower court erred in denying the petition for writ of certiorari

Docket Entries

2022-10-03
Rehearing DENIED.
2022-09-07
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2022.
2022-07-07
Petition for Rehearing filed.
2022-06-13
Petition DENIED.
2022-05-25
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/9/2022.
2022-02-10
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due May 13, 2022)

Attorneys

Tony Gene Williams, Sr.
Tony Gene Williams Sr. — Petitioner