Pamela Lynn Perillo v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division

DeMOSS, Circuit Judge:

Gary Johnson, the Director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s Institutional Division, (“the Director”) appeals the district court’s final judgment granting Pamela Perillo’s 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for habeas corpus relief. The district court determined that Perillo’s trial counsel labored under an actual conflict of interest that adversely affected counsel’s presentation of Perillo’s defense on the issues of both guilt and punishment at her 1980 trial. The district court therefore vacated the criminal judgment against Perillo, both as to her conviction and…