Legal Opinion
Childress v. Johnson
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 10, 1997No. 95-20865PublishedCited by 134 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BENAVIDES, Circuit Judge:
Joe David Childress appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Childress is serving a term of twenty-five years in Texas state prison for leaving the scene of an accident. He challenges the severity of his sentence, arguing that his prison term was unconstitutionally enhanced based on two burglary convictions secured in the late 1940s in violation of his Sixth Amendment right to counsel. These convictions preceded by many years the Supreme Court’s recognition that defendants in state felony cases have the federal constitutional…
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