Conner v. Quarterman

CARL E. STEWART, Circuit Judge:

The district court granted Johnny Ray Conner’s petition for habeas relief from the imposition of the death penalty for his conviction for capital murder in the course of a robbery. Nathaniel Quarterman, the Director of the Correctional Institutions Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (“the Director”), appeals the grant of habeas corpus. The district court granted relief on Conner’s ineffective assistance of counsel claim, premised on the argument that Conner’s trial counsel failed to adequately investigate a leg injury that caused Conner to…