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Jesus Rivera v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, No. 21-50441 · judgment March 3, 2022


Certiorari denied · October 3, 2022
Pre-decision estimate: 4% cert probability

Before the decision, roughly the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a Fifth Circuit decision below, a petition filed soon after the judgment below, and counsel who has filed here before, and down for a state or local-government respondent.

Question presented

What test should the Courts of Appeals employ to determine whether a state court writ of habeas corpus was decided in an objectively unreasonable manner under this Court’s precedent?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Cynthia Eva Hujar Orr
Goldstein and Orr

For respondent
Sarah Miranda Harp
Texas Attorney General

Case

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

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 03 2022
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jul 20 2022
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2022.
  3. Jun 01 2022
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 5, 2022)