United States Fifth Circuit
MARTINEZ v. TEXAS COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS, 02-40755
Even if Texas Death Row prisoners' challenges to state's "policy" of appointing ineffective state habeas counsel could be distinguished from their challenges to the ineffectiveness of their own counsel (asserted in their first habeas proceedings), these claims neither rely on a new rule of law, nor newly-discovered facts; requests for permission to file a successive habeas petition are denied.
Appellate Information
- Decided 05/21/2002
- Published 05/21/2002
Judges
- KING, Chief Judge:, Before KING, Chief Judge, and JONES and STEWART, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Fifth Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- David R. Dow,University of Houston Law Center, Houston, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., James William Marcus, Texas Defender Service, Houston, TX, for Gary Wayne Etheridge., David L. Botsford, Law Office of David L. Botsford, Austin, TX, for Napolean Beazley.
- For Appellees:
- Gena Blount Bunn, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, TX, for Defendants-Appellees.