Legal Opinion
Chavez, Ex Parte Adrian
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided May 23, 2012No. AP-76,665PublishedCited by 83 opinions
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2Opinion of the Court · AlcalaAlcala, J.
in which MEYERS, WOMACK, JOHNSON, HERVEY, and COCHRAN, JJ., joined.
Applicant, Adrian Chavez, seeks relief from his fifty-five-year sentence for aggravated robbery. This is applicant’s first subsequent application for a writ of habeas corpus. See Tex.Code CRiM. Proc. art. 11.07, § 4. Applicant claims that a new legal basis that was previously unavailable when he filed his first habeas application entitles him to consideration of, and relief on, his due-process false-testimony claim. See id. § 4(a)(1). Although we find that applicant is not procedurally barred from raising his claim, we…
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