Granados v. Quarterman

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

Sentenced to death in Williamson County, Texas, Carlos Granados appeals from a final judgment of the United States District Court, Western District of Texas, denying his petition for writ of habeas corpus claiming constitutional error in his conviction and death sentence.

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The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the conviction on direct appeal 1 and the Supreme Court denied certiorari. 2 Granados’s ensuing petition for state habe-as relief was denied by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in a per curiam order adopting the findings of the state trial…