Ex Parte Brandley

This is a writ of habeas corpus filed pursuant to 11.07 V.A.C.C.P. Applicant was tried for and convicted of capital murder. He was sentenced to death. This writ application was filed and set to examine three of applicant’s seven claims: (1) Whether “Petitioner was denied fundamental fairness and due process of law by the fact that critical evidence having the potential to prove that the applicant is innocent was lost and destroyed while in the exclusive possession of the State;” (2) Whether “The pretrial investigative procedures utilized by the State were so impermissibly suggestive of the…