No. 23-5618October Term 2023Decided May 13, 2024
Sandoval v. Texas
This case involves a criminal defendant who challenged his exclusion, along with his lawyer, from a preliminary proceeding where potential jurors requested to be excused from service.
Case status
- Current stage
- Decided
- Latest event
- Decision released May 13, 2024
- What it's about
This case involves a criminal defendant who challenged his exclusion, along with his lawyer, from a preliminary proceeding where potential jurors requested to be excused from service. The defendant argued that barring him from this part of the jury selection process violated his constitutional right to due process.
Question presented
Whether the state court erred when it held, without analysis of the underlying facts, that the trial court did not violate Gustavo Sandoval"s due process rights when it excluded him and his counsel from proceedings in which members of the jury panel who were called for his trial " and who knew the case that they were summoned for " sought discretionary excusals from the court?
- Case path
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas / Decision released May 13, 2024
- Area
Decided Supreme Court case
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- Note
- Plain-English explainer. Official filings and opinions remain authoritative.
- Checked
- Mar 30, 2026
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