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Ricky Haywood-Watson v. Texas
Paid petition · Court of Appeals of Texas, Fourteenth District, No. 14-18-00547-CR · judgment February 11, 2020
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate: the model weighted this down for a self-represented petitioner.
Question presented
In Section 21.02(d) of the Texas Penal Code, it states that a jury does not need to unanimously agree on which two or more acts of sexual abuse were committed in the continuous series. The two or more acts used to form the basis of the series are free-standing criminal violations, under Texas law, that independently require jury unanimity. This case presents the following question: In light of Ramos v. Louisiana, does Section 21.02(d) of the Texas Penal Code violate the constitutional guarantee of jury unanimity by not requiring a jury to unanimously agree on the two or more “acts” that constitute the series?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Ricky Haywood-Watson
For respondent
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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, March 22, 2021 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Mar 22 2021Petition DENIED.
- Mar 03 2021DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/19/2021.
- Jan 11 2021Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 16, 2021)