WOODS v. COCKRELL

No. 02-50193.

307 F.3d 353 (2002)

Bobby Wayne WOODS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Janie COCKRELL, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 24, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Alley, Robert Franklin Ford, Fort Worth, TX, for Petitioner-Appellant.

John Andrew Hutton, Austin, TX, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before DeMOSS, PARKER and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.


ROBERT M. PARKER, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner Woods, a Texas state death penalty inmate, requests a certificate of appealability ("COA") under 28 U.S.C. §§ 2253-2254 on two issues. First, whether the standard of review used by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals when reviewing the sufficiency of the evidence relating to the jury's determination of the special issue of future dangerousness, and whether its refusal to review the trial jury's determination of...

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