FLOYD v. VANNOY

No. 17-30421.

887 F.3d 214 (2018)

John David FLOYD, Petitioner-Appellee v. Darrel VANNOY, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary, Respondent-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Filed April 6, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Martin Andrew Davis , Emily Lucy Ann Maw , Innocence Project New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, for Petitioner-Appellee.

Donna Rau Andrieu , Assistant District Attorney, District Attorney's Office for the Parish of Orleans, New Orleans, LA, for Respondent-Appellant.

Before SMITH, BARKSDALE, and HIGGINSON, Circuit Judges.


For two murders in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1980, within days of, and in close proximity to, each other and involving extremely similar facts, John David Floyd was convicted in a state-court joint bench trial of the first, but acquitted of the second, murder, with state post-conviction relief's being denied...

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