Legal Opinion
Collier v. Cockrell
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 25, 2002No. 01-10803PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARL E. STEWART, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner James Paul Collier (“Collier”), convicted of capital murder in Texas and sentenced to death, requests from this Court a Certificate of Appealability (“COA”) pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2). For the reasons set forth below, we DENY the COA.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
A brief summation of the evidence presented at trial is all that is necessary for this review. On the evening of March 14, 1995, Collier entered a house in Wichita Falls, Texas, where Collier’s daughter was spending her spring break vacation, and shot and killed Gwendolyn Joy Reed…
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