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Mark Shumski v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 19-10184 · judgment October 9, 2019

Certiorari denied · March 23, 2020
Pre-decision estimate: 7% cert probability (95% interval 4%–11%)

Before the decision, about 1.6× the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a Fifth Circuit decision below, a petition citing three to ten dissents, and a dissent in the court below, and down for a state or local-government respondent.

Question presented

Is a prisoner entitled to a certificate of appealability (COA) on a claim for which other jurists have reached different conclusions from the district court on similar facts?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
William Reynolds Biggs
WILLIAM R. BIGGS, PLLC

For respondent
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Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Order
Order list, March 23, 2020 · Certiorari denied

Proceedings

  1. Mar 23 2020
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Feb 26 2020
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/20/2020.
  3. Jan 07 2020
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 10, 2020)