Legal Opinion
Louis Perez v. William Stephens, Director
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 26, 2014No. 13-70002, 13-70006PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAYNES, Circuit Judge:
A jury convicted Louis Perez of capital murder for the killings of his ex-girlfriend, her roommate, and the roommate’s nine-year-old daughter, and he was sentenced *176to death.1 The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (“CCA”) affirmed his conviction and sentence on direct appeal, and subsequently denied his petition for writ of ha-beas corpus. Perez filed a complaint seeking a writ of habeas corpus in the federal district court after exhausting his state-court remedies pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (which is part of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act or “AED-PA”).…
2Cases cited20 opinions
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- Holland v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 2010
- Bowles v. RussellSupreme Court of the United States · 2007
- Burt v. TitlowSupreme Court of the United States · 2013
- Maples v. ThomasSupreme Court of the United States · 2012
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3Cited by26 opinions
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- Edward Colbert v. Theodore BrennanCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2014
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