No. 25-6980

Cedric Allen Ricks v. Texas

Lower Court: Texas
Docketed: 2026-03-06
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP Experienced Counsel
Tags: Brady-violation due-process habeas-corpus postconviction-review prosecutorial-misconduct state-created-liberty-interest
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (from Petition)

Whether a State violates due process by barring access to its postconviction review procedures —thereby depriving a prisoner of a state -created liberty interest—when it refuses to consider a claim that could not meaningfully have been raised in earlier proceedings because the State alone possessed and wi thheld material evidence supporting it.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a State violates due process by barring access to postconviction review procedures when it refuses to consider a claim that could not meaningfully have been raised in earlier proceedings because the State alone possessed and withheld material evidence supporting it

Docket Entries

2026-03-11
Petition DENIED.
2026-03-11
Application (25A983) referred to the Court.
2026-03-11
Application (25A983) for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice Alito and by him referred to the Court is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
2026-03-09
Brief of respondent Texas in opposition filed.
2026-03-09
Reply of Cedric Ricks submitted.
2026-03-09
Reply of petitioner Cedric Ricks filed.
2026-03-06
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed.
2026-03-06
Application (25A983) for a stay of execution of sentence of death, submitted to Justice Alito.
2026-03-06
Amicus brief of Fair and Just Prosecution submitted.

Attorneys

Cedric Ricks
Jeremy Don SchepersOffice of the Federal Public Defender NDTX, Petitioner
Fair and Just Prosecution
John Robert MillsPhillips Black, Inc., Amicus
Texas
Jefferson David ClendeninOffice of the Attorney General of Texas, Respondent