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Michael Leon Grubb v. Texas

Paid petition · Court of Appeals of Texas, Eleventh District, No. 11-20-00037-CR · judgment February 3, 2022

Certiorari denied · January 9, 2023
Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability

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

Question presented

Whether the Supreme Court’s 1987 decision in Mauro effectively abdicated its 1980 holding in Innis by creating an analytical escape hatch related to the definition of “interrogation,” allowing law enforcement to avoid 5th Amendment protections through the creation of tricky scenarios intended to elicit confessions?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Jacob Austin Blizzard
Blizzard & Zimmerman, P.L.L.C.

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, January 9, 2023 · Certiorari denied

Proceedings

  1. Jan 09 2023
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Dec 14 2022
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/6/2023.
  3. Oct 25 2022
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 1, 2022)
    Petition