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LAVERNIA v. LYNAUGH

No. 87-1918 Summary Calendar.

845 F.2d 493 (1988)

Carlos LAVERNIA, Petitioner-Appellant, v. James A. LYNAUGH, Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 5, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carlos Lavernia, pro se.

Margaret Portman Griffey, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., for respondent-appellee.

Before GEE, RUBIN, and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

A state prisoner convicted of aggravated rape seeks habeas corpus relief. We find that the district court did not err in rejecting the six claims the prisoner made.

I.

Carlos Lavernia, a Cuban immigrant, was charged in September, 1984, with the rape of April Wooley in Austin, Texas, where Lavernia then resided, on June 2, 1983. Ms. Wooley had been jogging on a trail paralleling Barton Creek in Austin. She passed a Hispanic...

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