Death penalty defense
Ker'Sean Olajuwa Ramey v. Texas
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Application (26A380) for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice Alito and by him referred to the Court is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
- What it’s about
- Ker’Sean Ramey argued that Texas’s highest criminal court wrongly refused to review his claims about jury selection and his lawyers’ failure to present available evidence that could have reduced his death sentence.
- Who it affects
- The Supreme Court did not pause Ramey’s execution or decide his challenges to the Texas court’s refusal to review his claims.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
The Supreme Court refused to hear his case and denied his request for a temporary pause in his execution; it did not decide whether his claims were correct.
Ramey’s petition claimed that his lawyers failed to present available evidence that could have reduced his death sentence.
Question presented
1. 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. 2. 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.
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