Read RICHARDSON v. JOHNSON, 01-50568

A claim requesting a competency hearing prior to execution is subject to the AEDPA's limits upon successive writs.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/26/2001
• Published 06/26/2001

Judges

• BY THE COURT:, Before HIGGINBOTHAM, DeMOSS and STEWART, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Steven B. Rosenfeld,Katherine I. Puzone, Paul Henri Cohen, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York City, Daniel McNeel Lane, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, San Antonio, TX, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Tommy Lee Skaggs, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, TX, for Respondent-Appellee.