Legal Opinion
In Re: Robert Madrid Salazar, Movant
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 17, 2006No. 06-10243PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Per curiam
In March 1999, death-row inmate Robert Madrid Salazar was convicted of capital murder for the 1997 beating death and sexual assault of his girlfriend’s two-year-old daughter. Having exhausted his initial state and federal habeas claims, Salazar faces execution, scheduled for March 22, 2006.
On February 14, 2006, Salazar filed a subsequent state application for writ of habeas corpus with the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals based on Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304, 122 S.Ct. 2242, 153 L.Ed.2d 335 (2002), which categorically bars the execution of mentally retarded persons. The Texas Court of…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Atkins v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 2002
- Felker v. TurpinSupreme Court of the United States · 1996
- Ex Parte BrisenoCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2004
- Donald Bennett v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1997
- In Re: WilsonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2006
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3Cited by40 opinions
- Ex Parte BlueCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2007
- Mathis v. ThalerCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2010
- Carl Blue v. Rick Thaler, DirectorCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2011
- Rivera v. QuartermanCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2007
- William Wiley v. Christopher Epps, CommissionerCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2010
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