Legal Opinion
Michael Eugene Sharp v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 26, 1997No. 94-10605PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POLITZ, Chief Judge:
Michael Eugene Sharp, a Texas death row inmate, appeals the district court’s denial of habeas corpus relief. For the reasons assigned, we affirm.
Background
Late in the evening on Friday, June 10, 1982, Sharp forcibly abducted Brenda Kay Broadway and her two daughters, Selena Elms, then 14 years of age, and 8-year-old Christy Elms, from a car wash near Kermit, Texas. Sharp then drove them to an isolated location where he forced Broadway and Selena Elms to perform oral sex on each other and then stabbed Broadway and Christy Elms to death. Selena managed to escape and, after…
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