Legal Opinion
Jesse Joseph Deters v. James A. Collins, Director, Texas Dept. Of Criminal Justice Institution Division
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 11, 1993No. 91-6066PublishedCited by 133 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHNSON, Circuit Judge:
Jesse Joseph Deters, proceeding pro se, asks the Court to reverse the district court’s decision not to issue a writ of habe-as corpus. Deters presented a number of federal and state claims in his petition. However, finding that he failed to exhaust state remedies available to him, the Court declines to review the merits of this case and remands to the district court for dismissal without prejudice.
I. Facts and Procedural History In August of 1973, a Texas jury convicted petitioner Deters of murder with malice aforethought in the Second Ninth Judicial District Court,…
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