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Aaron York Dean v. Texas

Paid petition · Court of Appeals of Texas, Second District, No. 02-22-00322-CR · judgment February 15, 2024


Certiorari denied · October 7, 2024
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

Does Grey v. State, 298 S.W.3d 644 (Tex. Crim. App. 2009) violate the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the United States Constitution by allowing the State to submit a lesser-included offense to the jury merely by requesting it while the defendant must show some evidence in the record suggesting that defendant is guilty, if he is, of only the lesser-included offense? Does Grey v. State, 298 S.W.3d 644 (Tex. Crim. App. 2009) violate the Fifth Amendment’s requirement of a grand jury indictment and the Sixth Amendment’s requirement of notice of the charges by allowing the State to add a lesser-included charge at the conclusion of trial merely on request?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Leigh Warren Davis
Leigh Warren Davis

For respondent
Victoria Ann Ford Oblon
Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney's Office

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 07 2024
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Aug 21 2024
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/30/2024.
  3. Aug 19 2024
    Waiver of right of respondent Texas to respond filed.
  4. Aug 13 2024
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 16, 2024)