FELDER v. ESTELLE

Civ. A. No. H-80-1220.

588 F.Supp. 664 (1984)

Sammie FELDER, Jr., Petitioner, v. W.J. ESTELLE, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Respondent.

United States District Court, S.D. Texas, Houston Division.

April 24, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stefan Presser, Houston, Tex., Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, Peter Buscemi and Todd D. Stern, New York City, for petitioner.

Leslie A. Benitez, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., for respondent.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER:

STERLING, District Judge.

Petitioner is under a death sentence rendered by a jury in the 176th District Court of Harris County, Texas. Petitioner's original application for writ of habeas corpus was amended in September of 1981 to allege three additional, unexhausted grounds for relief, and Petitioner moved for dismissal of the petition without prejudice in order to pursue his new grounds for relief in the state courts. This Court accepted...

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