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NICKLESON v. STEPHENS

No. 13-41313.

803 F.3d 748 (2015)

Richard NICKLESON, Petitioner-Appellant v. William STEPHENS, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 20, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Simon Brian Purnell , Corpus Christi, TX, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Nathan Tadema , Office of the Attorney General, Postconviction Litigation Division, Austin, TX, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before JONES, BARKSDALE, and PRADO, Circuit Judges.

Richard Nickleson was convicted of murder in 2004 and sentenced to 38 years imprisonment for shooting a man with whom he had recently been involved in a drug deal. On direct appeal, he unsuccessfully raised various state law issues including insufficiency of the evidence. He then sought state habeas relief for claims...

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