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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

Certiorari denied · March 22, 2021
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

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

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

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Mar 22 2021
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Mar 03 2021
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/19/2021.
  3. Jan 11 2021
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 16, 2021)