SPRING v. CALDWELL

No. 81-2357.

692 F.2d 994 (1982)

Gilbert Manly SPRING, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Harry CALDWELL, Chief of Police, City of Houston, et al., Respondents-Appellants, State of Texas, Intervenor-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied January 10, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas M. Becker, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., for State of Texas.

John H. Helm, Asst. City Atty., Legal Dept., Houston, Tex., for Caldwell & Stanley.

Schaffer, Lambright & Ramsey, Wendell A. Odom, Jr., Nelson & Mallett, J. Patrick Wiseman, Larry Sauer, Houston, Tex., for petitioner-appellee.

Michael A. Maness, Houston, Tex., amicus curiae for ACLU.

Before THORNBERRY, REAVLEY and GARWOOD, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied January 10, 1983.

THORNBERRY, Circuit Judge:

I. Introduction

This is an appeal by Caldwell, the Houston Chief of Police and defendant below, and the State of Texas, intervenor below, from a judgment arising out of a federal habeas corpus proceeding brought under 28 U.S.C. §§ 2241 and 2254 (1976). The district court reached the merits, and held that section 38.02 of the Texas Penal Code, the "Failure...

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