No. 23-5597

Rodolfo Alvarez Medrano v. Texas

Lower Court: Texas
Docketed: 2023-09-15
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Relisted (11)IFP
Tags: 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights confession-coercion custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment interrogation miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona state-court-review
Latest Conference: 2024-05-23 (distributed 11 times)
Question Presented (from Petition)

II. Whether under all the circumstances, including an officer's knowing and
deliberate deployment of Petitioner's wife to elicit statements from
Petitioner while he was in custody, the falsity of the information the officer
gave her to convey to the petitioner, the strength of the incentive he
proffered to induce the Petitioner to speak, and the fact that similar tactics
were deliberately employed to obtain confessions Petitioner's codefendants, introduction of the resulting statement Petitioner's Fifth and
Fourteenth Amendment rights under Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436
(1966).

I. Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' determination that the
Petitioner's subsequent petition failed to satisfy the requirements of Article
11.071, § 5(a)(2) was an adequate and independent state ground precluding
merits review of his claim where that provision authorizes a subsequent
petition when "by a preponderance of the evidence, but for a violation of the
United States Constitution no rational juror could have found the applicant
guilty beyond a _ reasonable doubt" and the confession whose
constitutionality Petitioner is challenging was the only significant evidence
linking him to the capital murder with which he was charged.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the introduction of Petitioner's statement violated his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights under Miranda v. Arizona

Docket Entries

2024-05-28
Petition DENIED.
2024-05-20
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/23/2024.
2024-05-13
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/16/2024.
2024-05-08
Rescheduled.
2024-05-06
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/9/2024.
2024-04-22
Rescheduled.
2024-04-22
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/26/2024.
2024-04-16
Rescheduled.
2024-04-15
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/19/2024.
2024-04-10
Rescheduled.
2024-04-08
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/12/2024.
2024-03-26
Rescheduled.
2024-03-25
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/28/2024.
2024-03-19
Rescheduled.
2024-03-18
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/22/2024.
2024-03-13
Rescheduled.
2024-03-11
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/15/2024.
2024-02-29
Rescheduled.
2024-02-15
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/1/2024.
2024-02-14
Electronic record received from Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas and Hidalgo County.
2024-02-13
Record Requested.
2024-01-26
Supplemental brief of petitioner Rodolfo Medrano filed.
2024-01-25
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/16/2024.
2024-01-20
Reply of petitioner Rodolfo Medrano filed.
2024-01-08
Brief of respondent Texas in opposition filed.
2023-11-17
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including January 8, 2024.
2023-11-16
Motion to extend the time to file a response from November 22, 2023 to January 8, 2024, submitted to The Clerk.
2023-10-25
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including November 22, 2023.
2023-10-23
Motion to extend the time to file a response from October 16, 2023 to November 22, 2023, submitted to The Clerk.
2023-09-13
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 16, 2023)
2023-08-11
Application (23A118) granted by Justice Alito extending the time to file until September 14, 2023.
2023-08-07
Application (23A118) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from August 15, 2023 to September 14, 2023, submitted to Justice Alito.

Attorneys

Rodolfo Medrano
James William MarcusCapital Punishment Center, University of Texas Law, Petitioner
Texas
Rachel Leigh PattonOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent