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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-5250 Jaleel Bertrand Franklin v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-08-01 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability counsel-statements due-process jurist-standard legal-deference logical-fallacy presumption-of-correctness racial-composition racial-makeup-of-venire state-created-barrier venire-panel 1 (a) Whether counsel's statements are entitled to "double deference" or a presumption of correctness when such are premised entirely upon a logical…
19-6743 Kenneth Dewayne Nelson v. Texas Texas 2019-11-25 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-selection plea-change right-to-jury right-to-trial sixth-amendment texas-code-of-criminal-procedure texas-constitution trial-by-jury venire-panel ISSUE 1: THE VENIRE PANEL WAS INFORMED THAT MELLON HAD PLEAD GUILTY TO ALL FIVE CHARGES. WHEN NELSON CHANGED THOSE PLEAS BEFORE THE TRIAL ON THE MERIT…