Leon Rutherford King v. James A. Lynaugh, Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Respondent

ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

In this capital case, a Texas inmate appeals from the district court’s order denying his petition for habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Because the petitioner’s eighth and fourteenth amendment right to exercise voir dire challenges knowingly was infringed when the state trial court refused to allow him to ask questions directed towards determining whether veniremembers harbored misconceptions about Texas parole law that might bias them in favor of capital punishment, he has a right to be resentenced.

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On October 16, 1978, Leon Rutherford King was…