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MOTLEY v. COLLINS

No. 92-2610.

3 F.3d 781 (1993)

Jeffrey Dean MOTLEY, Petitioner-Appellant, v. James A. COLLINS, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 21, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley G. Schneider, Schneider & McKinney, Houston, TX, for petitioner-appellant.

Charles A. Palmer, William Zapalac, Asst. Attys. Gen., Dan Morales, Atty. Gen., Austin, TX, for respondent-appellee.

Before KING, DAVIS and WIENER, Circuit Judges.

KING, Circuit Judge:

Jeffrey Dean Motley, a Texas death row inmate convicted of capital murder, appeals from the district court's decision denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. For the reasons discussed below, we conclude that this case fits squarely within the small class of cases still controlled by Penry: the jurors who sentenced Motley to death were unable, as required by the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, to consider and give effect to the...

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