Legal Opinion
Barrientes v. Johnson
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 5, 2000No. 98-40348PublishedCited by 191 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KING, Chief Judge:
In this habeas case, the district court granted relief on six claims related to the penalty phase of Petitioner Antonio Bar-rientes’s capital murder trial and vacated Barrientes’s death sentence. The court denied all other claims and an application for a certificate of probable cause. Respondent Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division, appeals from that portion of the district court’s order granting relief, and Petitioner applies for a certificate of probable cause to appeal ten claims upon which relief was denied. With regard…
2Cases cited95 opinions
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3Cited by191 opinions
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