Legal Opinion
Briddle v. Scott
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 23, 1995No. 91-06060PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GARWOOD, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner-appellant James Michael Brid-dle (Briddle), a Texas death row inmate, appeals the district court’s denial of his habe-as corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. We affirm.
Facts and Procedural Background
Briddle was indicted by a Texas grand jury on March 1980, and reindicted in October 1980, on two counts of capital murder committed in Harris County, Texas, February 23, 1980, namely the capital murder of Robert Skeens while committing robbery and the capital murder of Robert Banks while committing robbery. The state elected to proceed only on the count…
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