Legal Opinion
Walter Thomas, Jr. v. Oscar Savage, Warden, Retrieve Unit, Texas Dept. Of Corrections,respondent-Appellant
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 23, 1975No. 74-3987PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GIBSON, Circuit Judge.
The State of Texas appeals the issuance of a writ of habeas corpus upon the application of petitioner, Walter Thomas, Jr., pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1970). Petitioner was convicted in a jury trial of robbery by assault in 1968. 1 Under Texas’ bifurcated system of criminal trials, the same jury then proceeded with the punishment stage of the trial and sentenced Thomas to a term of 99 years. One of his eodefend-ants received the same sentence, a second received 85 years. During this punishment stage five prior convictions of petitioner were introduced by the State.…
2Cases cited26 opinions
- Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Harrington v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- United States v. TuckerSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
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3Cited by33 opinions
- Lawrence Leroy Farrow v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1978
- United States v. Jose Demetrio Arteaga-Limones and Mike Lozano CantuCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1976
- Patrick J. Mullen v. Frank Blackburn, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary and William J. Guste, Attorney General of LouisianaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1987
- Rogers v. LynaughCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1988
- Robert Charles Jones v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections, RespondentCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1980
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