No. 22-1114

James Harris, Jr. v. Texas

Lower Court: Texas
Docketed: 2023-05-15
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance intellectual-disability medically-accepted-standards moore-v-texas strickland-v-washington
Key Terms:
AdministrativeLaw DueProcess Punishment HabeasCorpus JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2023-09-26
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Whether the TCCA contravened the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and this Court's precedents, when it evaluated petitioner's intellectual disability claim based on its own standard instead of medically accepted criteria.

2. Whether petitioner received ineffective assistance of counsel in violation of the Sixth Amendment when his counsel abandoned an investigation into his intellectual disability without having any medical professional evaluate the defendant for that condition.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the TCCA contravened the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and this Court's precedents, when it evaluated petitioner's intellectual-disability claim based on its own standard instead of medically-accepted criteria

Docket Entries

2023-10-02
Petition DENIED.
2023-08-09
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/26/2023.
2023-08-08
2023-07-25
2023-06-12
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including August 14, 2023.
2023-06-08
Motion to extend the time to file a response from June 14, 2023 to August 14, 2023, submitted to The Clerk.
2023-05-10
2023-03-15
Application (22A812) granted by Justice Alito extending the time to file until May 10, 2023.
2023-03-10
Application (22A812) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from April 10, 2023 to June 9, 2023, submitted to Justice Alito.

Attorneys

James Harris, Jr.
Michael Francis WilliamsKirkland and Ellis LLP, Petitioner
State of Texas
Trey David PicardBrazoria County District Attorney's Office, Respondent