Legal Opinion
Brown v. Dretke
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 29, 2005No. 04-70054PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BENAVIDES, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner Maurieeo Mashawn Brown was convicted in Texas state court of capital murder and sentenced to death. Subsequently, Brown filed a petition for habe-as corpus relief in a federal district court, which denied the petition and declined to issue a certificate of appealability (“COA”) on any issue. Brown now requests this court to grant a COA pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2). For the reasons that follow, Petitioner’s Application for a Certificate of Appealability is denied.
I. BACKGROUND
On August 15, 1996, Brown, Kenneth Foster, DeWayne Dillard, and Julius Steen…
2Cases cited31 opinions
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