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Coble v. Texas

Petition for certiorari denied on June 20, 2011
Docket No. Op. Below Argument Opinion Vote Author Term
10-1271 Tex. Ct. Crim. App. N/A N/A N/A N/A OT 2010

Issue: (1) Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals improperly extended Barefoot v. Estelle by reading that case as categorically foreclosing any claim that the admission of unreliable expert testimony in a particular case violates the federal Constitution; and (2) whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals undercut Jurek v. Texas by abandoning the consideration of future dangerousness and retroactively replacing it with a dangerous-character test.

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