United States Fifth Circuit

A jury in a capital trial was not unconstitutionally precluded from giving mitigating effect to evidence of petitioner's alcoholism, and admission of evidence of an extraneous offense of which petitioner had been acquitted did not deny him a fair trial.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/18/2002
• Published 11/18/2002

Judges

• JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:, Before JOLLY, SMITH and EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert M. Roach, Jr.,Cook & Roach, Solace Kirkland Southwick, Andrews & Kurth Mayor, Day, Caldwell & Keeton, Thomas Miles Farrell, Nickens, Keeton, Lawless, Farrell & Flack, Houston, TX, for Harris., Gena Blount Bunn, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, TX, for Cockrell.