AYESTAS v. DAVIS

No. 15-70015.

933 F.3d 384 (2019)

Carlos Manuel AYESTAS, also known as Dennis Zelaya Corea, Petitioner-Appellant v. Lorie DAVIS, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED July 31, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sheri L. Johnson , Cornell University, School of Law, Ithaca, NY, Lee Benjamin Kovarsky, Esq. , University of Maryland Law School, Baltimore, MD, Meaghan McLaine VerGow , O'Melveny & Myers, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Jason R. LaFond , Office of the Attorney General for the State of Texas, Tina J. Miranda , Assistant Attorney General, Gwendolyn Suzanne Vindell , Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Financial Litigation & Charitable Trusts Division, Austin, TX, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before SMITH, SOUTHWICK, and HO, Circuit Judges.


ON REMAND FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

Carlos Manuel Ayestas is a prisoner on death row in Texas. We previously affirmed the district court's denial of his request under 18 U.S.C. § 3599(f) for investigatory funding because he...

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