Earlando Williams v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division

BENAVIDES, Circuit Judge:

Earlando Williams appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Williams claims that the State’s failure to produce his parole officer at his revocation hearing violated his due process right to elicit favorable testimony regarding circumstances that would have mitigated his violation of a parole condition. Pretermitting a determination of a due process violation, we find that any error was harmless and therefore affirm.

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In 1966 a jury found Williams guilty of rape and sentenced him to death. That sentence was subsequently commuted…