Legal Opinion
Cesar Roberto Fierro v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided December 22, 1999No. 98-50562PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:
Cesar Roberto Fierro, a death row inmate, has been here before. Fierro has been awaiting execution for over nineteen years after having been convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death for the murder of a taxi driver in El Paso, Texas. He has petitioned the federal courts for a writ of habeas corpus three times, and his fourth petition — which we authorized- — is now pending in the district court.
Today he comes to our court to challenge the district court’s denial of his motion to vacate its earlier judgment denying his petition for habeas relief. Fierro…
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