Legal Opinion
Robert Madrid Salazar v. Doug Dretke, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 29, 2005No. 03-11244PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KING, Chief Judge:
Petitioner-Appellant Robert Madrid Salazar appeals the district court’s dismissal of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus application. For the following reasons, we AFFIRM the judgment of the district court.
I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
A. The Trial: Conviction and Sentencing
On April 30, 1997, Salazar was indicted for the capital murder of his girlfriend’s two-year-old daughter. He pleaded not guilty, and on January 11, 1999, his trial began. The evidence adduced at trial showed that Salazar began dating a woman named Raylene Blakeburn in the fall of 1996. On April 23,…
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