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PRIDE v. ESTELLE

No. 80-1488.

649 F.2d 324 (1981)

Curtis PRIDE, Petitioner-Appellant, v. W. J. ESTELLE, Jr., Etc., Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Unit A

June 30, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Erik S. Goodman, Staff Counsel for Inmates, Texas Dept. of Corrections, Sugarland, Tex., for petitioner-appellant.

Sam L. Jones, Leslie A. Benitez, Asst. Attys. Gen., Austin, Tex., for respondent-appellee.

Before BROWN and TATE, Circuit Judges, and SMITH, District Judge.

TATE, Circuit Judge:

The petitioner Pride prays for federal habeas corpus relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, with regard to his Texas state court conviction for aggravated robbery. The essence of Pride's asserted bases for relief — in both the state habeas corpus proceedings and the federal proceedings below — is that he was in fact incompetent to stand trial, despite a jury verdict to the contrary at his state pretrial competency hearing. The...

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