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COCKRUM v. JOHNSON

No. 96-40793.

119 F.3d 297 (1997)

John COCKRUM, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Gary L. JOHNSON, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division, Respondent-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 29, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mandy Welch, Richard H. Burr, III, Texas Defender Service, Houston, TX, for Petitioner-Appellee.

John Dury Jacks, Meredith Anne Martinez, Assistant Attorney General, Austin, TX, for Respondent-Appellant.

Before HIGGINBOTHAM, WIENER and BARKSDALE, Circuit Judges.

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

This opinion decides an appeal. It is also an extraordinary account of perverse allocations of government resources in a capital case. In 1986, two court-appointed lawyers and an investigator had six months to prepare for a trial that ended in a death sentence for John Cockrum. A state district judge in a small community in far east Texas presided over the jury trial, running the court with no secretary or law clerk. The lawyers...

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