Supreme Court of the United States
Andrus v. Texas
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- Opinion
- Filed
- June 15, 2020
- Case
- Andrus v. Texas
- Case status
- Decided
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Per Curiam. Death-sentenced petitioner Terence Andrus was six years old when his mother began selling drugs out of the apartment where Andrus and his four siblings lived. To fund a spiraling drug addiction, Andrus' mother also turned to prostitution. By the time Andrus was 12, his mother regularly spent entire weekends, at times weeks, away from her five children to binge on drugs. When…
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