Ker'Sean Olajuwa Ramey v. Texas

Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals unreasonably disregarded clearly established Batson precedent and this Court’s recent emphatic clarification of the law in Pitchford by refusing merits review of a subsequent state habeas application alleging a constitutional violation that would have precluded any rational juror from imposing a death sentence.

Whether the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals unreasonably refused to review Petitioner’s ineffective assistance of counsel claims where trial counsel failed to investigate and present readily available and substantial mitigating evidence during the sentencing phase of Petitioner’s capital murder trial.