Legal Opinion
William Schrader v. John P. Whitley, Warden, and William J. Guste, Jr., Attorney General of State of Louisiana
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 28, 1990No. 89-3648PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:
William Schrader appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for habeas corpus relief from the judgment of conviction entered against him in a Louisiana state court. Schrader was convicted in June 1986 by a jury which returned a responsive verdict of manslaughter, and the state trial court sentenced him to 21 years at hard labor, the maximum penalty for manslaughter. Schrader appealed, raising among other grounds that: (1) no rational jury could have found him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt; and (2) the trial court erred in denying his motion for a…
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