Legal Opinion
Derrick Charles v. William Stephens, Director
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided November 18, 2013No. 12-70016PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Per curiam
Derrick Dewayne Charles appeals the district court’s denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 application challenging his death sentence for the murder of three people. The district court denied his application, but granted a Certificate of Appealability (“COA”) on his claim that he was prejudiced by his counsel’s deficient performance at trial. We AFFIRM.
I
In 2002, Texas charged Charles with capital murder for killing three victims during the same criminal transaction. Charles pleaded guilty and the case proceeded to the punishment phase, in which the jury deliberated the special issues of Charles’s…
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