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WHITE v. ESTELLE

Civ. A. No. H-81-1661.

554 F.Supp. 851 (1982)

Larry Wayne WHITE, Petitioner, v. W.J. ESTELLE, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Respondent.

United States District Court, S.D. Texas, Houston Division.

December 30, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. Larry Cantu, Houston, Tex., for petitioner.

Leslie Benitez, Austin, Tex., for respondent.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

SINGLETON, Chief Judge.

I. HISTORY OF THE CASE

On June 20, 1979, Larry Wayne White was convicted of capital murder in the 185th Judicial District Court of Harris County, Texas for the March 1, 1977 murder of Elizabeth St. John, a seventy-two-year-old woman.1 The evidence showed that during the course of a robbery, the victim had been strangled, stabbed in the back with a screw driver, and sexually...

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