Legal Opinion
McGinnis v. Johnson
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 9, 1999No. 98-20375PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner Glen Charles McGinnis appeals the district court’s dismissal of his petition for habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. We affirm.
I
A jury in Montgomery County, Texas, found McGinnis guilty of capital murder while committing a robbery. At the punishment phase, the jury found that McGin-nis acted deliberately, that he was a continuing threat to society, and that there were not sufficient mitigating circumstances to warrant a sentence of life imprisonment. Accordingly, the state trial court imposed a sentence of death. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals…
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