LOOKINGBILL v. COCKRELL

No. 00-41089.

293 F.3d 256 (2002)

Robert Andrew LOOKINGBILL, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Janie M. COCKRELL, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 3, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry L. Warner, Law Offices of Larry Warner, Brownsville, TX, David Kenneth Sergi, San Marcos, TX, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Katherine D. Hayes, Austin, TX, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before SMITH, BENAVIDES and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.


JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

Robert Lookingbill appeals the dismissal, as time-barred under the one-year limitations period established by the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 ("AEDPA"), 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d), of his petition for a federal writ of habeas corpus.1 We affirm.

I.

Lookingbill was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed his...

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