Legal Opinion
Saldano v. O'Connell
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 18, 2003No. 02-41208PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KING, Chief Judge:
In 1996, Victor Hugo Saldano was convicted and sentenced to death for the capital murder of Paul King. On appeal, we are asked to resolve whether the district court erred in holding that the Collin County District Attorney’s application for intervention presented it with non-justiciable political questions.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
The Collin County District Attorney’s Office (“District Attorney”) represented the State of Texas in this case at trial and on Saldano’s direct appeal of his death sentence to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. During the punishment phase…
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