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BAGWELL v. DRETKE

No. 03-51060.

372 F.3d 748 (2004)

Dennis Wayne BAGWELL, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Douglas DRETKE, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice — Correctional Institutions Division, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 7, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary Allen Taylor, Alexander Lee Calhoun, Law Office of Alex Calhoun, Austin, TX, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Woodson Erich Dryden, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, TX, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before JONES, BENAVIDES and CLEMENT, Circuit Judges.

EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:

In 1996, a Texas jury convicted and sentenced to death Dennis Wayne Bagwell for the exceedingly brutal murders of his mother, half-sister, four-year-old niece, and another young woman. After direct appeal and petition for state habeas corpus were unsuccessful, Bagwell raised seventeen grounds for relief in a § 2254 petition before the federal district court. The district court rejected all of the claims, dismissed Bagwell's petition...

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