Compton v. Texas
Petition for certiorari denied on April 15, 2024
Issues: (1) Whether a court’s comparison of generalizations about all the female prospective jurors who were struck by the prosecution with generalizations about the male jurors not struck by the prosecution, rather than a side-by-side analysis of individual jurors, disregards the basic equal protection principle that one discriminatory strike is too many; and (2) whether Texas exercised its peremptory strikes in a prohibited discriminatory fashion.
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| Date | Proceedings and Orders (key to color coding) |
|---|
| Aug 16 2023 | Application (23A153) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from August 29, 2023 to September 28, 2023, submitted to Justice Alito. |
| Aug 18 2023 | Application (23A153) granted by Justice Alito extending the time to file until September 28, 2023. |
| Sep 28 2023 | Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due November 1, 2023) |
| Oct 19 2023 | Waiver of Texas of right to respond filed October 13, 2023 removed from the docket as improperly filed. See Rule 15.1. |
| Oct 19 2023 | Motion to extend the time to file a response from November 1, 2023 to December 1, 2023, submitted to The Clerk. |
| Oct 20 2023 | Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including December 1, 2023. |
| Nov 28 2023 | Brief of respondent Texas in opposition filed. |
| Dec 14 2023 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/5/2024. |
| Jan 08 2024 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/12/2024. |
| Jan 08 2024 | Record Requested. |
| Jan 11 2024 | Electronic records received from the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas. |
| Jan 16 2024 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/19/2024. |
| Feb 09 2024 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/16/2024. |
| Feb 20 2024 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/23/2024. |
| Feb 26 2024 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/1/2024. |
| Mar 11 2024 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/15/2024. |
| Mar 18 2024 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/22/2024. |
| Mar 25 2024 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/28/2024. |
| Apr 08 2024 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/12/2024. |
| Apr 15 2024 | Petition DENIED. Justice Sotomayor, with whom Justice Jackson joins, dissenting from the denial of certiorari. (Detached Opinion) |
