No. 21-5050October Term 2021Decided Apr 18, 2022Updated Apr 18, 2022
Love v. Texas
This case asks whether Texas violated a capital defendant’s constitutional rights by allowing a racially biased juror to serve on his death-penalty jury.
Case status
Decided · April 18, 2022
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- Latest event
- Decision released Apr 18, 2022
- What it's about
This case asks whether Texas violated a capital defendant’s constitutional rights by allowing a racially biased juror to serve on his death-penalty jury. It also concerns whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals wrongly treated that error as harmless because the trial court had given the defense extra peremptory strikes earlier in jury selection.
Question presented
1. Whether Texas' Court of Criminal Appeals, the only court of last resort reviewing direct appeals in death penalty cases has decided an important federal question concerning a racially biased juror being allowed on a capital death penalty jury in violation of Petitioner's rights under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. 2. Whether Texas' Court of Criminal Appeals, the only court of last resort reviewing direct appeals in death penalty cases has decided an important federal question concerning a racially biased juror in a way that conflicts with relevant decisions of this Court in violation of Petitioner's rights under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.
- Case path
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas / Decision released Apr 18, 2022
- Area
Decided Supreme Court case
Timing
Decided April 18, 2022
The Court released its decision on April 18, 2022 without hearing oral argument.
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Activity
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Opinion added: Opinion
Apr 18, 2022 | Court records
Brief added: Petition
Jul 1, 2021 | Court records
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