Legal Opinion
Curtis Paul Harris v. James A. Collins, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 22, 1993No. 92-2918PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:
Thirteen years ago, Curtis Paul Harris was first convicted of murder in a Texas court and was sentenced to death. He has since been tried, convicted and sentenced to death again, and he has unsuccessfully sought relief on direct appeal and by habe-as corpus in state court. These protracted proceedings lend new meaning to the phrase “exhaustion” of state remedies. 1 After Harris filed a federal petition for writ of habeas corpus, the district court, in a very thoughtful opinion, denied relief on all claims and refused to grant a certificate of probable cause to…
2Cases cited25 opinions
- Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Teague v. LaneSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
- Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Barefoot v. EstelleSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Swain v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
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3Cited by9 opinions
- Joseph Bennard Nichols v. Wayne Scott, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division, Cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1995
- Andrews v. CollinsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1994
- Montoya v. ScottCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1995
- Jacobs v. ScottCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1994
- Cordova v. JohnsonDistrict Court, W.D. Texas · 1998
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