Legal Opinion
Michael Wayne Evans v. O.L. McCotter Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Respondent
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 4, 1986No. 85-1665PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RANDALL, Circuit Judge:
Michael Wayne Evans, a state prisoner sentenced to death, appeals from the dismissal of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, 28 U.S.C. §§ 2241, 2254. The district court granted a certificate of probable cause. Upon consideration of the arguments raised, in the context of the entire record, we are convinced that Evans has not proved that his trial suffered from federal constitutional infirmities. Accordingly, we affirm.
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For the purposes of this proceeding, the facts are as follows. 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d). The decomposed bodies of a man and a woman were found on June…
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