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BARRAZA v. COCKRELL

No. 02-10979.

330 F.3d 349 (2003)

Mauro Morris BARRAZA, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Janie COCKRELL, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 1, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Patrick Abbott, Coppell, TX, for Petitioner-Appellant.

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

Before HIGGINBOTHAM, SMITH and CLEMENT, Circuit Judges.

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

Mauro Morris Barraza is a prisoner of the State of Texas under a sentence of death imposed after a jury in Tarrant County convicted him of the murder of 73-year-old Vilorie Nelson in the course of a burglary of her home in Fort Worth, Texas.

Barraza's conviction and sentence have been affirmed and his state habeas petition denied by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.1 The Supreme Court...

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