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Luis Arnaldo Baez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 18-50516 · judgment March 26, 2019


Certiorari denied · October 7, 2019
Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability

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

Questions presented

  1. Whether a jury instruction that permits conviction on proof of extraneous and propensity evidence, rather than on proof of all of the elements of a charged offense, violates the due process and jury trial protections of the constitution;

  2. Whether the Petitioner has made a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right within the meaning of Section 2353(c)(2) of Title 28 of the United States Code. That is, whether jurists of reason could disagree with the district court’s resolution of Petitioner’s constitutional claims or that jurists could conclude the issues presented are adequate to deserve encouragement to proceed further.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
George William Aristotelidis
Law Office of Jorge G. Aristotelidis

For respondent

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 07 2019
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Aug 14 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
  3. Jun 21 2019
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 29, 2019)