Legal Opinion
Henry Lee Lucas v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 9, 1998No. 96-10389PublishedCited by 126 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:
Henry Lee Lucas was sentenced to death after being convicted of capital murder in Texas state court. Following affirmance of the conviction and sentence on direct appeal, Lucas filed three applications for. habeas corpus relief in state court. After the denial of the final state application, Lucas filed his first application for habeas corpus relief in federal district .court, setting out seventeen alleged errors that he contended warranted relief. The district court denied the application and denied Lucas’s request for a cértifí-cate of probable cause. Lucas…
2Cases cited52 opinions
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3Cited by126 opinions
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