Legal Opinion
Martinez v. Johnson
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 20, 2001No. 00-40813PublishedCited by 112 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KING, Chief Judge:
Petitioner-Appellant Johnny Joe Martinez, a Texas death-row inmate, appeals the district court’s denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition challenging his conviction and death sentence. For the following reasons, we AFFIRM.
I. FACTUAL BACKGROUND
On July 15, 1993, nineteen-year-old Johnny Joe Martinez robbed a convenience store in Corpus Christi, Texas and murdered Clay Peterson, a college student working alone at the store. According to the facts developed at trial, at approximately 3:00 a.m., Martinez drove to the 7-Eleven convenience store with Ernest Wortmann, 1 an individual…
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