| 25A201 |
Michael Donell Glover v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-08-20 |
Presumed Complete |
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criminal-law deadly-weapon pocketknife serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code |
Question not identified. |
| 25A68 |
Jacquel O'Neal v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-07-17 |
Presumed Complete |
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effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus jury-instruction sexual-assault-of-child sixth-amendment texas-penal-code |
Question not identified. |
| 24-7172 |
Erick Alfredo Peralta v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-murder criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment life-without-parole proportionality texas-penal-code |
Does the Eighth Amendment prohibit sentences which are disproportionate?
If so, is Life Without Parole disproportionate for a capital murder
convict… |
| 24-6758 |
Matias P. Briones v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-03-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process non-unanimous-jury ramos-precedent texas-penal-code |
Is Texas Penal Code 21.02 repugnant to the 5th, 6th, and 14th amendment of the U.S. Constitution where Texas held error of non-unanimous jury instruct… |
| 22-7079 |
Henry Joseph Stevens v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act criminal-statute due-process federal-courts physical-force state-law state-law-interpretation statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code violent-felony |
1. When evaluating whether a state-law offense satisfies the Armed Career Criminal Act's definition of a "violent felony," 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B), f… |
| 22-202 |
Leonardo Nuncio v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-09-06 |
Denied |
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constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech harassment-statute obscenity obscenity-test overbreadth texas-penal-code vagueness |
1. Is Texas's obscene harassment statute (Tex. Penal Code 42.07(a)(1) and (b)(3)) unconstitutionally vague and overbroad?
2. Does the Miller v. Calif… |
| 22-5159 |
Eddie Lamont Lipscomb v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act demand-for-certainty federal-courts mens-rea state-criminal-law state-law statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code violent-felony |
1. When evaluating whether a state-law offense satisfies the Armed Career Criminal Act's definition of a "violent felony," 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B), f… |
| 21-7929 |
Johnny Joe Avalos v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-murder cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability life-without-parole mitigating-circumstances sentencing texas-penal-code |
Whether an ALWOP sentence on an intellectually disabled adult convicted of capital murder as provided by Texas Penal Code Section 12.31(a)(2) - a stat… |
| 21-7586 |
Jaako Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-sentencing generic-offense robbery sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code texas-robbery violent-crime |
Whether Texas robbery, a crime defined differently than similarly named crimes in a majority of states, is a crime of violence under the United States… |
| 21-6230 |
In Re Billy John Roberson |
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2021-11-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment aggravated-assault conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency judicial-conflict jury-instructions penal-code texas-penal-code |
How could I receive an Guilty Verdict of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon at the time of this supposed incident, I, Billy John Rooerson, did no… |
| 21-5975 |
Modesto Balderas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-14 |
GVR |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act borden-v-united-states criminal-procedure records-of-conviction sentencing sentencing-enhancement simple-robbery texas-penal-code violent-felony |
Whether the Texas offense of Simple Robbery, Tex. Penal Code §29.02(a) constitutes a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. §… |
| 20-7984 |
Eddie Lamont Lipscomb v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-11 |
GVR |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split civil-rights due-process physical-contact physical-force robbery texas-penal-code use-of-force violent-felony |
1. Whether simple robbery under Texas Penal Code § 29.02 remains a "violent felony" without the Armed Career Criminal Act's unconstitutional residual … |
| 20-7731 |
Rodney Bernard Allen v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act bodily-injury certificate-of-appealability elements-clause fifth-circuit johnson-rule reckless-conduct successive-habeas-petition successive-motion texas-penal-code texas-robbery |
1. In Texas, a defendant commits simple robbery if, during the course of a theft, he recklessly causes someone else to suffer bodily injury or knowing… |
| 20-973 |
Ricky Haywood-Watson v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-01-15 |
Denied |
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apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-guarantee continuous-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure jury-unanimity ramos-v-louisiana richardson-v-united-states schad-v-arizona sexual-abuse texas-penal-code |
In light of Ramos v. Louisiana, does Section 21.02(d) of the Texas Penal Code violate the constitutional guarantee of jury unanimity by not requiring … |
| 20-6773 |
Artavius Dontrell Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary circuit-split fair-warning reckless-causation serious-bodily-injury texas-penal-code texas-robbery theft violent-felony |
1. Is Texas aggravated robbery—which can be committed by recklessly causing serious bodily injury to another person during the course of a theft—a vio… |
| 20-6225 |
Michael David Lister v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split fair-warning reckless-causation serious-bodily-injury statutory-interpretation texas-assault texas-penal-code violent-felony |
1. Is Texas aggravated assault—which can be committed by recklessly causing serious bodily injury—a violent felony under the Armed Career Criminal Act… |
| 19-7684 |
Jeremy Glenn Powell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-18 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act due-process fifth-amendment fifth-circuit physical-force reckless reckless-offenses statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code texas-robbery violent-felony |
1. Whether the Texas offense of simple robbery, Penal Code § 29.02(a), "has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force … |
| 19-6450 |
Sherif Sayed Mahmoud v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutionality content-based-restriction due-process first-amendment free-speech penal-code standard-of-review standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions texas-penal-code |
1. Whether Section 33.021 of the Texas Penal Code is a content-based restriction. The courts of appeals continue applying the incorrect standard of re… |
| 19-5199 |
Billy John Roberson v. Rowlett Police Department, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment 2nd-amendment-rights absence-from-crime-scene aggravated-assault-elements assault-elements burden-of-proof conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process insufficient-evidence penal-code second-amendment sentencing-issues standing texas texas-penal-code |
1. How could I receive an Guilty Verdict of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon at the
time of this supposed incident, I, Billy John Roberson, di… |
| 18-7719 |
Cesar Gomez v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment-rights standing texas-penal-code |
Whether Texas Penal Code ' 21.02, is Constitutional under the
Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment of the United States
Constitution?
Whether a Sta… |
| 18-6950 |
Jason Wayne McBride v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-intent criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment-amendment mens-rea speedy-trial statutory-interpretation texas-penal-code |
waived even though it is observed and Texas Penal Code § 25.1(d) prohibited the use of more counts for the same offense arising out of the same crimin… |
| 18-445 |
Tanya Ramirez v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
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civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process equal-protection fundamental-right fundamental-rights intimacy legal-infringement privacy procreation sexual-conduct sexual-relationship texas-penal-code |
Is TEXAS PENAL CODE §21.12, which criminalizes an otherwise legal sexual relationship, unconstitutional in its infringement upon a constitutionally-pr… |
| 18-5355 |
Del Ray Sanders v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
accidental-death criminal-procedure criminally-negligent-homicide due-process homicide-charges jury-instructions lesser-included-offense lesser-included-offenses manslaughter standard-of-review texas-penal-code trial-court-discretion unreasonable-application-of-federal-law |
Petitioner Sanders, contends the Ninth Appellate District Court, Cause # 09-10-00047--CR, Beaumont, Texas, Erred by ruling the Trial Court of Polk Cou… |