Docket No. | Op. Below | Argument | Opinion | Vote | Author | Term |
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20-701 | Tex. Crim. App. | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
Issues: (1) Whether the Constitution prevents a state from allowing a defendant to represent himself in a capital case when the defendant is mentally competent to waive counsel but is not mentally competent to conduct trial proceedings in his capital trial; (2) whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the state of Texas from sentencing petitioner James Calvert to death on a finding of future dangerousness based in substantial part on graphic testimony and evidence about an attack on a prison official committed by another inmate in another prison at another time, having no connection to Calvert; and (3) whether the constitutional violation resulting from the trial court’s direction to administer a 50,000- volt electric shock to Calvert during his trial to “enforce decorum” because Calvert failed to stand when responding to a question from the court constitutes structural error.
Date | Proceedings and Orders |
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Nov 16 2020 | Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 21, 2020) |
Dec 10 2020 | Motion to extend the time to file a response from December 21, 2020 to January 20, 2021, submitted to The Clerk. |
Dec 11 2020 | Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including January 20, 2021. |
Jan 12 2021 | Motion to extend the time to file a response from January 20, 2021 to February 19, 2021, submitted to The Clerk. |
Jan 13 2021 | Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including February 19, 2021. |
Wait wut.. RBG ghost-wrote the equal protection bits of Obergefell?!
And I learned this on @SCOTUSblog’s TikTok?! https://www.tiktok.com/@scotusblog/video/6922179577724931333
"This is not our first commission rodeo” says Levy. 😉
Love this write up of the @BrookingsInst's panel yesterday with @Susan_Hennessey, @danepps,@cdkang76, and @mollyereynolds.
Thanks, @SCOTUSblog and Kalvis Golde!
https://www.scotusblog.com/2021/01/with-democrats-in-control-supreme-court-reform-proposals-reclaim-center-stage/
Spilling SCOTUS tea on TikTok today. Well, actually, @eskridgebill spilled the tea, we just tok’d about it. 🍵
https://balkin.blogspot.com/2021/01/marriage-equality-and-sex.html
The Supreme Court got rid of several cases this morning -- in one fell swoop. Read @AHoweBlogger's latest coverage of the emoluments cases, spiritual advisers at Texas executions, Texas abortion policies, COVID restrictions, and NY political corruption.
Justices vacate rulings on Trump and emoluments - SCOTUSblog
The Supreme Court on Monday morning released orders from the justices’ private conference on Friday, Jan. 22. The justices once again did not ac...
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