BENAVIDES, Circuit Judge:
The respondent-appellant, Gary L. Johnson, the Director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division, appeals the district court's grant of a writ of habeas corpus to James Ronald Meanes, a Texas death row inmate convicted of capital murder. For the reasons set forth below, we reverse and render.
FACTUAL BACKGROUND
On April 21, 1981, around noon, an armored van driven by Olivero Flores, who...
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