IN RE SWEARINGEN

No. 19-20565.

935 F.3d 415 (2019)

IN RE: Larry SWEARINGEN, Movant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED August 16, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Gregory Rytting , Philip Harlan Hilder , Hilder & Associates, P.C., Houston, TX, for Movant.

Tina J. Miranda , Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Financial Litigation & Charitable Trusts Division, Austin, TX, for Respondent Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division.

Before COSTA, WILLETT, and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges.


Larry Ray Swearingen, convicted nineteen years ago of capital murder for strangling nineteen-year-old Melissa Trotter, seeks permission to file a fourth federal habeas corpus petition. He also moves to stay, for the fifth time, his execution date, scheduled for the evening of Wednesday, August 21, 2019. Finding...

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