Legal Opinion
Cordova v. Johnson
District Court, W.D. Texas
Decided February 4, 1998No. 5:95-cv-01014PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
PRADO, District Judge.
Petitioner George Cordova filed this action pursuant to Title 28 U.S.C. Section 2254 seeking federal habeas corpus review of his state conviction for capital murder and sentence of death. As grounds for relief, petitioner argues in his first amended petition that his trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance at both the guilt-innocence and punishment phases of petitioner’s state capital murder trial, the state trial court erred in its jury instructions at both phases of trial, petitioner’s death sentence violates the law of…
2Cases cited250 opinions
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3Cited by16 opinions
- Billy George Hughes v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice,institutional DivisionCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1999
- Dell v. StraubDistrict Court, E.D. Michigan · 2002
- George Cordova v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional DivisionCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1998
- Martinez v. DretkeDistrict Court, W.D. Texas · 2006
- Bartee v. QuartermanDistrict Court, W.D. Texas · 2008
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