Legal Opinion
Emanuel Vincent Thomas v. James A. Collins, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 25, 1991No. 90-1022PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DUHÉ, Circuit Judge.
Appellant Thomas requests that the judgment and order of the district court be vacated and his application for writ of ha-beas corpus be granted. We affirm.
Thomas pleaded guilty to three charges. He was found guilty on two and received concurrent jail sentences. No finding of guilt was made on the third charge, and Thomas was placed on deferred adjudication probation. The convictions were appealed to and affirmed by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Thomas then filed two unsuccessful petitions for writ of habe-as corpus in state court. Thereafter, he filed a federal…
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