Joshua Eric Townley v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division
1. Is there a constitutional claim of double jeopardy, reinstatement of convictions after acquittal, when a Federal or State trial court rescinds its granted order of new trial based on insufficient evidence on guilt?
2. Has The Supreme Court of the United States overturned its own precedent in Burks v. United States, 18 S.Ct. 2141 (1978) or Hudson v. Louisiana, 101 S.Ct. 470 (1481)? where this Court holds that if the conviction is reversed for insufficient evidence of guilt, double jeopardy bars retrial, because a finding of insufficient evidence of guilt means that the trial Court should have taken a judgment of acquittal; where this principle applies to State as well as federal prosecutors.
3. Has The Supreme Court of the United States overturned its own precedent in Buck v. Davis, 134 S.Ct. 154 (2017) allowing a United States Court of Appeals to exceed its statutory authority under 28 U.S.C. § 2283(c)(1)(A), by considering the merits of a Constitutional claim without jurisdiction, while determining the reasonable
Whether there is a constitutional claim of double jeopardy, reinstatement of convictions after acquittal, when a federal or state trial court rescinds its granted order of new trial based on insufficient evidence on guilt?