No. 22-6781

Samuel Adkins v. Texas

Lower Court: Texas
Docketed: 2023-02-14
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: attorney-client-relationship criminal-trial effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pre-trial-proceedings sexual-abuse sixth-amendment trial
Latest Conference: 2023-04-14
Question Presented (from Petition)

Did the state court err when it held that Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to the Effective assistance of counsel was not violated where Petitioner was forced into a trial with an attorney whom he did not trust, had lost confidence in, and absolutely refused to communicate with?

Does the state court's decision-that counsel was not ineffective for failing to investigate, develop and present evidence of prior sexual abuse at the hands of his stepfather, and its effects on him, as mitigating evidence at punishment-contradict this Court's clearly established law, as well as the decisions of the state courts?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Did the state court err in holding that the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was not violated?

Docket Entries

2023-04-17
Petition DENIED.
2023-03-30
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/14/2023.
2023-02-09
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 16, 2023)

Attorneys

Samuel Adkins
Samuel Adkins — Petitioner