Woods v. Johnson

GARWOOD, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner-appellant Billy Joe Woods (Woods) appeals the district court’s denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas petition challenging his Texas capital murder conviction and sentence to death.

Woods’ primary contention is that the punishment stage future dangerousness testimony of prosecution witness Dr. Garcia violated the rule of Estelle v. Smith, 451 U.S. 454, 101 S.Ct. 1866, 68 L.Ed.2d 359 (1981), and Satterwhite v. Texas, 486 U.S. 249, 108 S.Ct. 1792, 100 L.Ed.2d 284 (1988), and his Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights, because Dr. Garcia had examined Woods…