Legal Opinion
Ruiz v. Thaler
District Court, W.D. Texas
Decided April 6, 2011No. 1:03-cr-00303PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POST-REMAND MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER DENYING RELIEF
ORLANDO L. GARCIA, District Judge.
This Court denied petitioner’s federal habeas corpus petition collaterally attacking his 1995 Bexar County capital murder conviction and sentence of death. Ruiz v. Dretke, 2005 WL 2146119 (W.D.Tex. August 29, 2005), affirmed, 460 F.3d 638 (5th Cir.2006), cert. denied, 549 U.S. 1283, 127 S.Ct. 1815, 167 L.Ed.2d 326 (2007). On the eve of his execution, petitioner filed a motion for relief from judgment pursuant to Rule 60(b), Fed.R.Civ.P., which this Court denied on both substantive and procedural grounds.…
2Cases cited63 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Slack v. McDanielSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
- Miller-El v. CockrellSupreme Court of the United States · 2003
- Williams v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
- Wiggins v. Smith, WardenSupreme Court of the United States · 2003
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Rolando Ruiz v. William Stephens, DirectorCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2013
- Ex parte RuizCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2016
- Ruiz v. StephensCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2017
- Francisco Salazar v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont)2018
- Jeremy Nathaniel Miller v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont)2018
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