Supreme Court of the United States

Lester Leroy Bower, Jr. v. Texas.

March 23, 2015135 S. Ct. 1291

Summary

The Supreme Court denied the petition for a writ of certiorari. Justice Breyer, joined by Justices Ginsburg and Sotomayor, dissented, arguing that Texas’s special‑issues sentencing scheme violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments as held in Penry and that Bower is entitled to a new sentencing proceeding.