DREW v. SCOTT

No. 94-20553.

28 F.3d 460 (1994)

Robert DREW, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Wayne SCOTT, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 1, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert C. Owen, Texas Resource Center, Houston, TX, Ronald M. Kuby, William M. Kustler, New York City, Michael L. Jackson, Buffalo, NY, for appellant.

Dan Morales, Atty. Gen., Reneau Longoria, Bill Zapalac, Asst. Attys. Gen., Austin, TX, for appellee.

Before GARWOOD, JOLLY and HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges.


E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:

More than eleven years ago Robert Drew viciously and sadistically beat and stabbed Jeffrey Mays to death on February 21, 1983. Jeffrey was a teenage boy from Alabama who had run away from home with his high school friend, Bee Landrum. The boys picked up John Sly, and later they picked up Robert Drew and Ernest Puralewski. The group drove toward Houston, Texas. Suddenly, violence erupted when Jeffrey decided that he wanted to turn the...

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