Legal Opinion
J. Loyd Parker, Jr. v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 29, 1977No. 76-4245Published
1Opinion of the Court
RONEY, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner, J. Loyd Parker, Jr., has been found guilty of murdering his father. In this habeas corpus action he seeks to liti gate for the second time the constitutionality of Texas’ refusal to give him sentence credit for the time he spent in a mental hospital following the crime but before trial. A panel of this Court previously denied his claim, finding that the jury took his six year period of hospitalization into account when it sentenced him to a 10-year term for murder, which could have brought life imprisonment. Parker v. Estelle, 498 F.2d 625, 627 (5th Cir.…
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