Legal Opinion
Staley, Steven Kenneth
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided September 11, 2013No. AP-76,798, AP-76,868PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court 1
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2Opinion of the Court · AlcalaAlcala, J.
in which PRICE, WOMACK, JOHNSON, and COCHRAN, JJ., joined. KELLER, P.J., filed a dissenting opinion in which HERVEY and KEASLER, JJ., joined. MEYERS, J., filed a dissenting opinion in which KELLER, P.J., and Hervey, J., joined.
In this case, we are asked to decide whether state or federal law disallows the execution of a mentally ill inmate who was previously found incompetent to be executed and later became competent only after he was involuntarily medicated pursuant to a court order. Steven Kenneth Staley, appellant,1 raises this question in a subsequent application for a writ of…
3Cases cited25 opinions
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- Washington v. HarperSupreme Court of the United States · 1990
- Panetti v. QuartermanSupreme Court of the United States · 2007
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