Legal Opinion
United States v. Key
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 3, 2000No. 99-50639PublishedCited by 178 opinions
1Per curiam
Travis Homer Key appeals the district court’s denial of his motion for the appointment of counsel to assist in his filing of a successive habeas corpus petition. We vacate the opinion of the district court and dismiss for lack of jurisdiction.
In 1992, Key pled guilty to second degree murder on federal property and was sentenced to forty years in prison and five years of supervised release. His sentence was affirmed on direct appeal in 1993. In 1997, Key filed a petition for federal habe-as corpus, alleging that the district court failed to comply with Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11 and…
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