United States Fifth Circuit

Petition for a Certificate of Appealability on the bases of ineffective assistance of counsel, racial discrimination stemming from an alleged systematic pattern in the prosecution of death penalty cases, and alleged selective prosecution of death penalty cases based on the geographic location of the defendant at the time crime committed, denied on all issues.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/27/2002
• Published 03/27/2002

Judges

• ROBERT M. PARKER, Circuit Judge:, Before WIENER, BENAVIDES, and PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Delonia Anita Watson, Fort Worth, TX, Tanya K. Pierce, Asst. U.S. Atty., Lubbock, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Floyd D. Holder, Jr., Law Firm of Floyd Holder, Timothy W. Floyd, Texas Tech University, School of Law, Lubbock, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.