Quintin Jones v. Lorie Davis, Director

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

Quintin Phillippe Jones was sentenced to death by a Texas court. He now appeals the district court's denial of his federal application for post-conviction relief, arguing that evidence was erroneously admitted at sentencing in violation of his Fifth Amendment rights and that the district court improperly denied him further investigative funding. We granted a certificate of appealability, and now affirm the district court's judgment and denial of funding.

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Jones beat his eighty-three-year-old great aunt, Berthena Bryant, to death with a baseball bat after…