MULLIS v. LUMPKIN

No. 21-70008.

47 F.4th 380 (2022)

Travis James MULLIS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Bobby LUMPKIN, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED August 26, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter James Walker , Federal Community Defender Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Matthew Dennis Ottoway , Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Criminal Appeals Division, Austin, TX, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before Smith, Higginson, and Willett, Circuit Judges.


Travis Mullis sexually assaulted and murdered his infant son. A Texas jury convicted him of capital murder. The jury found that Mullis likely would commit future violent acts and that nothing mitigated his culpability. So the trial court sentenced him to death.

Mullis neither appealed that conviction and sentence...

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