HAWKINS v. LYNAUGH

No. 86-1774.

844 F.2d 1132 (1988)

Samuel Christopher HAWKINS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. James A. LYNAUGH, Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 29, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel Christopher Hawkins, pro se.

Joel Berger, New York City, for amicus — NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.

Paula C. Offenhauser, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jim Mattox, Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., for respondent-appellee.

Before RUBIN, KING, and HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges.


PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

Samuel Christopher Hawkins represents himself in this court, urging that his conviction of capital murder and sentence of death by a Lubbock County, Texas, jury should be set aside for three reasons. He argues that his "trial was had by use of perjured testimony[,] ... [t]he confession was extracted and obtained in violation of petitioner's right not to be compelled to give evidence against himself [, and] ... [t]he evidence...

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