Legal Opinion
Johnny Dean Pyles v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 5, 1998No. 97-10809PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KING, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner-appellant Johnny Dean Pyles, a Texas death row inmate convicted of capital murder, appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm.
I. FACTUAL BACKGROUND
While on routine patrol at 12:50 a.m. on June 20, 1982, Officer Charles Mitchell, a deputy sheriff with the Dallas County Sheriffs Department, noticed a beige Jeep in the parking lot of a small convenience store in the city of Sunnyvale. The store was closed. Mitchell used his patrol car’s spotlight to examine the vehicle and the store as…
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