No. 22-7169

Scott Teevan v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2023-03-31
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: actual-innocence appointment-of-counsel circuit-split counsel-appointment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance perjury standard-of-review
Latest Conference: 2023-06-01
Question Presented (from Petition)

Will, this court resolve a circuit split regarding the Standard of Review used for actual innocence?

Should this court grant habeas litigants the ability to to demand the written justifications for the denial of habeas which is kept secret from them by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals?

Could this court resolve an issue of due process regarding the appointment of counsel, for a specific statute and body of law currently in place before the Texas courts?

Can this court reslove the multiple issues of perjury that took place in the trial court to obtain his conviction?

How is it possible that three eyewitnesses to tbb event which makes up the body of the conviction before the court, were not revealed to the defense nor were they brought before the trial court to testify, Further, was this more important if their testimony was known pre-trial to be exculpatory?

Was trial counsel ineffective for not investigating the " s eyewitnesses?

Was trial counsel ineffective for not obtaining an expert to learn the facts about the pistbl used in trial.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the standard of review for actual innocence claims should be resolved by this Court to address a circuit split

Docket Entries

2023-06-05
Petition DENIED.
2023-05-17
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/1/2023.
2023-03-20
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due May 1, 2023)

Attorneys

Scott Teevan
Scott Teevan — Petitioner