Legal Opinion
Fearance v. Scott
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 19, 1995No. 95-10527PublishedCited by 125 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
On Application for Certificate of Probable Cause and Motion for Stay of Execution.
Before JONES, DUHÉ and WIENER, Circuit Judges. EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge.
Appellant Fearanee has been tried and sentenced to death twice for stabbing Larry Faircloth nineteen times and causing him to bleed to death in his own bedroom, during Fearance’s aborted burglary. This court rejected Fearance’s first federal habeas petition and denied a certificate of probable cause to appeal only three months ago. Following his third collateral trip through the state courts, Fearanee filed for § 2254 habe-as relief in…
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3Cited by125 opinions
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