United States Fifth Circuit

The record is insufficient to make a determination whether failure to fully investigate petitioner's mitigation evidence resulted from an investigator's relationship with the murder victim's mother.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/13/2003
• Published 08/13/2003

Judges

• CARL E. STEWART, Circuit Judge:, Before JONES, EMILIO M. GARZA and STEWART, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Steven Joseph Wells (argued), Andre T. M. Hanson, Patrick J. McLaughlin, Dorsey & Whitney, Minneapolis, MN, Philip Alan Wischkaemper, Snuggs & Wischkaemper, Lubbock, TX, Roberto Anguizola, Schwartz, Cooper, Greenberger & Krauss, Chicago, IL, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Katherine D. Hayes (argued), Austin, TX, for Respondent-Appellee.