SCHRADER v. WHITLEY

No. 89-3648.

904 F.2d 282 (1990)

William SCHRADER, Petitioner-Appellant, v. John P. WHITLEY, Warden, and William J. Guste, Jr., Attorney General of State of Louisiana, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 28, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Virginia Laughlin Schueler, Asst. Federal Public Defender, John T. Mulvehill, Federal Public Defender, New Orleans, La., for petitioner-appellant.

John R. Walker, Asst. Dist. Atty., Houma, La., for respondents-appellees.

Before RUBIN, JOHNSON, and HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges.


ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

William Schrader appeals the district court's denial of his petition for habeas corpus relief from the judgment of conviction entered against him in a Louisiana state court. Schrader was convicted in June 1986 by a jury which returned a responsive verdict of manslaughter, and the state trial court sentenced him to 21 years at hard labor, the maximum penalty for manslaughter. Schrader appealed, raising among other grounds that: (1) no...

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