No. 22-7463

Lexter Kennon Kossie v. Texas

Lower Court: Texas
Docketed: 2023-05-04
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fourteenth-amendment good-conduct-time liberty-interest overdetention prisoner-rights systemic-overdetention
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2023-09-26
Question Presented (from Petition)

1) Whether Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDC3) violates
the Fourteenth Amendment by confining its prisoners past the
dates uhen they are legally entitled to released based on
state statutes created liberty interest 1?;i

2) Whether (TDC3)'s GOOD CONDUCT TIME policies are inadequate
and unethical ,thus , causing systemic overdetention of its
prisoners in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment?; and

3) Whether TDCJ's deliberate indefference to its inadequate
and unethical GOOD CONDUCT TIME policies and practices pose
problem? an 'equitablei

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCI) violates the Fourteenth Amendment by confining its prisoners past the dates when they are legally entitled to released based on state statutes created 'liberty. interest'?

Docket Entries

2023-10-02
Petition DENIED.
2023-06-15
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/26/2023.
2023-03-16
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due June 5, 2023)

Attorneys

Lexter Kossie
Lexter Kennon Kossie — Petitioner