GUILLORY v. CAIN

No. 01-30032.

303 F.3d 647 (2002)

Christopher GUILLORY, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Burl CAIN, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 26, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clive A. Stafford-Smith (argued), Louisiana Crisis Assistance Center, New Orleans, LA, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Frederick Wayne Frey (argued), Lake Charles, LA, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, JONES and BARKSDALE, Circuit Judges.


PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

Christopher Guillory was convicted in Louisiana of three counts of first degree murder. In this federal habeas petition he attacks the process for selecting the foreperson of the grand jury that indicted him in Calcasieu Parish. The system of selection that Guillory complains of here was at issue in Campbell v. Louisiana1 in 1998, discontinued the next year by an amendment to the state criminal...

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