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DERRICK v. COLLINS

Civ. A. No. H-90-2183.

741 F.Supp. 126 (1990)

Mikel James DERRICK, Petitioner, v. James A. COLLINS, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division, Respondent.

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

July 13, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William E. Gray, Houston, Tex., for petitioner.

Dana E. Parker, Asst. Atty. Gen., Enforcement Div., Austin, Tex., for respondent.

OPINION

RAINEY, District Judge.

The Petitioner, Mikel James Derrick, ("Derrick"), presented his Petition for Habeas Corpus to this Court on July 9, 1990. A very abbreviated history of this case is appropriate at this juncture. On October 10, 1980, Edward Sonnier was brutally murdered in his apartment in Houston, Texas. In August 1981, while in custody on an unrelated matter, Derrick wrote a letter to the Harris County District Attorney claiming that he had...

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