Legal Opinion
Lamb v. Johnson
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 23, 1999No. 98-10924PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARL E. STEWART, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner John Michael Lamb, convicted of capital murder in Texas and sentenced to death, requests from this Court a Certificate of Appealability (“COA”) pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2). For the reasons set forth below, we DENY the COA.
Factual & Prooedural Background
Lamb was convicted by a jury of capital murder and sentenced to death in 1983. The pertinent facts can be found in the substance of his confession contained in the state court opinion affirming his conviction:
Friday November 5, 1982[:] I got out of Jail in Searcy Arkansas about 10:30 a.m. I…
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