George Cordova v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division

W. EUGENE DAVIS, Circuit Judge:

George Cordova, a Texas death row inmate, seeks a certificate of probable cause to appeal the district court’s dismissal of his habeas petition. We deny the certificate.

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Cordova was first convicted for the capital murder of Jose M. Hernandez and sentenced to death in 1982. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed Cordova’s conviction and sentence on direct appeal. Cordova v. State, 698 S.W.2d 107 (Tex.Crim.App.1985), cert. denied, 476 U.S. 1101, 106 S.Ct. 1942, 90 L.Ed.2d 352 (1986). This court, however, overturned Cordova’s conviction because the trial…