United States Fifth Circuit

An application for a certificate of appealability from a denial of habeas corpus relief in a death penalty case is denied as petitioner failed to make a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right with regard to claims that: 1) the indictment was defective because it did not state a capital offense; 2) trial and appellate counsel provided ineffective assistance of counsel; and 3) the trial court erred in admitting evidence of an extraneous offense during the guilt phase of trial.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/05/2007
• Published 10/08/2007

Judges

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

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael Dennis Samonek, John Thomas Haughton, Law Office of John T. Haughton, Denton, TX, for Wood., Woodson Erich Dryden, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, TX, for Quarterman.