Ex Parte Staley

ORDER

Pursuant to the provisions of Article 11.071 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, applicant filed an application for writ of habeas corpus seeking relief from his death sentence. We have reviewed that application and conclude that it must be dismissed as a subsequent application that does not satisfy the requirements of Section 5(a)(1) of Article 11.071; thus, consideration of the merits of applicant’s claim is barred.

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In January 1991, applicant was convicted of the capital murder of Robert Read during a robbery in Tarrant County. Based upon the jury’s responses to four special…