... [2]. On direct appeal, Meadoux argued, for the first time, that the prohibition on cruel and
unusual punishments contained in the Eighth Amendment barred the State from subjecting
a juvenile capital offender to imprisonment for life without parole. ...
... In this original mandamus proceeding, we must decide whether an indigent person, adjudicated
a juvenile delinquent as a minor and sentenced to forty years, has a 926 statutory right under
the Juvenile Justice Code to the appointment of an attorney in a habeas corpus ...
245 SW3d 110 (2008). In the Matter of FD, a Juvenile. No. 05-06-01712-CV. ... 112 Background.
FD pleaded guilty in juvenile court to two counts of aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon.
He was committed to TYC on September 10, 2003, when he was seventeen years old. ...
