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Melvin Charles Pettigrew v. Texas

Paid petition · Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, No. WR-57,087-02 · judgment July 18, 2018

Certiorari denied · December 3, 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

Whether the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas violated the Petitioner’s right to due process of law as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in denying any substantive post-conviction review to the Petitioner?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Ray Christopher Goldsmith
Attorney at Law

For respondent
Kyle Douglas Hawkins
Lehotsky Keller Cohn LLP

Case

Subject area
Criminal Procedure (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Order
Order list, December 3, 2018 · Certiorari denied

Proceedings

  1. Dec 03 2018
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Nov 07 2018
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/30/2018.
  3. Oct 31 2018
    Waiver of right of respondent State of Texas to respond filed.
  4. Oct 10 2018
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 15, 2018)