Legal Opinion
John Floyd v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 25, 2018No. 17-30421PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Per curiam
*148Appellant's Petition for Rehearing En Banc is DENIED. This opinion is substituted in place of the prior opinion, Floyd v. Vannoy , 887 F.3d 214 (5th Cir. 2018).
For two murders in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1980, within days of, and in close proximity to, each other and involving extremely similar facts, John David Floyd was convicted in a state-court joint bench trial of the first, but acquitted of the second, murder, with state post-conviction relief's being denied for the first time in 2011, but federal habeas relief's being granted in 2017 because, after concluding the habeas application…
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