Legal Opinion
Williams v. Cain
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided October 17, 2000No. 99-30340PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GARWOOD, Circuit Judge:
In 1981, petitioner-appellant Thomas J. Williams (Williams), a Louisiana state prisoner, was convicted by a jury of first degree murder and sentenced to death. He was later resentenced to life imprisonment. Williams filed a state habeas corpus application, alleging, inter alia, that the reasonable doubt instruction given to the jury at his trial was constitutionally defective. On October 23, 1991, the state trial court denied Williams’s application for habeas relief, and on July 17, 1994, the Louisiana Supreme Court denied Williams’s request for supervisory and/or…
2Cases cited29 opinions
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3Cited by28 opinions
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