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LITTLE v. JOHNSON

No. 98-40240.

162 F.3d 855 (1998)

William Hamilton LITTLE, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Gary L. JOHNSON, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

December 10, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roxanne Jensen, Karen Howard, Morrison & Foerster, Denver, CO, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Gena A. Blount, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, TX, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before JONES, SMITH and STEWART, Circuit Judges.

EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:

William Hamilton Little was tried and convicted of capital murder by a Texas jury on April 5, 1985. Having exhausted his state court remedies, Little unsuccessfully sought federal habeas relief in the district court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Little's primary contention in this petition, among several asserted, concerns the trial court's failure to introduce the "confession" of another man who claimed to have committed the murder...

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