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Enrique P. Gomez v. Texas

Paid petition · Court of Appeals of Texas, Fourteenth District, No. 14-16-00499-CR · judgment July 25, 2017


Certiorari denied · April 30, 2018
Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

Petitioner filed his first writ of habeas with the State of Texas district court in 2012. Since then, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has published State v. Guerrero, 400 S.W.3d 576 (Tex. Crim. App. 2013) which in State criminal habeas proceedings treats non-citizens differently from U.S. Citizens. I.- Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in not applying the Texas definition of final conviction to non-citizens but rather the definition of 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (a)(48)(A) has violated the equal protection and due process guarantees under the 14th Amendment? II.- Whether the second application for Writ of Habeas Corpus is in essence the equivalent of a direct appeal pursuant to Martinez v. Ryan, 132 S.Ct. 1309 (2012) and Trevino v. Thaler, 133 S. Ct. 1911 (2013), and therefore there is no retroactivity problem to a direct application of Padilla? III.- Whether affirmative misadvise is governed by the no retroactivity rule of Chaidez v. United States, 133 S. Ct. 1103 (2013) in relation to Padilla v. Kentucky, 130 S. Ct. 1473 (2010)?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Roberto M. Hinojosa
Hinojosa & Salinas, PLLC

For respondent

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Apr 30 2018
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Apr 11 2018
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/27/2018.
  3. Feb 20 2018
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 26, 2018)