United States Fifth Circuit

In a death penalty case, a request for certificate of appealability is refused as to claims of error regarding ineffective assistance of counsel and unconstitutional strictures of argument in mitigation, and a district court's judgment is affirmed rejecting a claim that the state trial court erred in sustaining the state-s challenge for cause of a member of the venire.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/10/2006
• Published 08/11/2006

Judges

• PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:, Before HIGGINBOTHAM, BENAVIDES and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Chris K. Gober, Nicholas & Barrera, San Antonio, TX, Adrienne Urrutia Wisenberg, Solomon L. Wisenberg PLLC, Washington, DC, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jeremy Craig Greenwell, Tomee Morgan Heining, Austin, TX, for Respondent-Appellee.