Legal Opinion
Clark v. Johnson
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 28, 2000No. 98-11113PublishedCited by 204 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DeMOSS, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner Jack Wade Clark, a Texas death row inmate, whose petition for habe-as corpus relief and request for a Certificate of Appealability (“COA”) from the denial thereof were both denied by the federal district court below, now seeks a COA from this Court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2). For all of the reasons set forth below, we deny the request for a COA.
I. BACKGROUND
According to his own written confession, which was admitted at trial, Clark observed the decedent, Melisa Ann Garcia, making a telephone call at a public telephone in the early morning hours of…
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