CONNER v. QUARTERMAN

No. 05-70021.

477 F.3d 287 (2007)

Johnny Ray CONNER, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Nathaniel QUARTERMAN, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, Respondent-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 29, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth A. Williams (argued), University of Miami School of Law, Coral Gables, FL, Robert M. Rosenberg, Wilton Manors, FL, for Conner.

Woodson Erich Dryden, Asst. Atty. Gen. (argued), Austin, TX, for Quarterman.

Before WIENER, BENAVIDES, and STEWART, Circuit Judges.


CARL E. STEWART, Circuit Judge:

The district court granted Johnny Ray Conner's petition for habeas relief from the imposition of the death penalty for his conviction for capital murder in the course of a robbery. Nathaniel Quarterman, the Director of the Correctional Institutions Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice ("the Director"), appeals the grant of habeas corpus. The district court granted relief on Conner's ineffective assistance of counsel...

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