Legal Opinion
Finis Smith Blankenship v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director of Texas Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 17, 1977No. 75-4255PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GEE, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner-appellant Finis Blankenship appeals from the district court’s denial, without evidentiary hearing, of his petition for habeas corpus relief from a state court conviction. Petitioner was convicted in a Texas state court as an accomplice to an armed robbery of a Buddies supermarket in Euless, Texas. The State alleged that Blankenship had masterminded the robbery and had forced the State’s two young principal witnesses, John Brooks and Charles Crawford, to carry out the crime with petitioner’s cousin Odell Blankenship, who was killed during a getaway shootout with…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Giglio v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Picard v. ConnorSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Napue v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
- Mooney v. HolohanSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
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3Cited by33 opinions
- William Daye v. Attorney General of the State of New York and Eugene Le Fevre, Superintendent, Greenhaven Correctional FacilityCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1982
- United States v. Anthony Antone, Manuel Gispert, Larry Neil Miller, Frank Diecidue, A/K/A "The Under Boss," Frank Boni, Jr., and Homer Rex DavisCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1979
- Arthur Houston v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections, RespondentCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1978
- Arthur Frederick Goode, III v. Louie L. WainwrightCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1983
- Jackie Vance Lowery v. W.J. Estelle, Jr., Director Texas Department of Corrections, RespondentCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1983
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