Legal Opinion
Pierce v. Thaler
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 22, 2010No. 08-70042PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KING, Circuit Judge:
The petitioner-appellee, Anthony L. Pierce, was sentenced to death in 1986 in Texas state court for a murder committed during the course of a robbery in 1977. After exhausting his state-court avenues for posteonviction relief in 2007, he sought habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 in federal district court. The district court vacated Pierce’s death sentence and ordered resentencing, finding that the statutory special issues presented to the jury at Pierce’s sentencing did not permit the jury to give meaningful consideration and effect to all of Pierce’s mitigating…
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3Cited by15 opinions
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