Cases

C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied.

C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied.

C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied.

C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied.

C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied.

535 U.S. 959 EDWARDSv.COCKRELL, DIRECTOR, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, INSTITUTIONAL DIVISION. No. 01-7922. Supreme Court of the United States. March 25, 2002. 1 C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied.

535 U.S. 1090 EDWARDSv.COCKRELL, DIRECTOR, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, INSTITUTIONAL DIVISION. No. 01-7922. Supreme Court of the United States. May 20, 2002. 1 Petitions for rehearing denied.

535 U.S. 997 EDWARDSv.COCKRELL, DIRECTOR, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, INSTITUTIONAL DIVISION. No. 01-8288. Supreme Court of the United States. April 15, 2002. 1 C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied.

C. A. 6th Cir. Certiorari denied.

CARL E. STEWART, Circuit Judge: Petitioner-Appellant, Gary Eugene Big-by (“Bigby”), appeals the district court’s denial of his Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus regarding his claim that, by declining to recuse himself after Bigby assaulted him, the trial judge denied Bigby his constitutional right to due process. Prominent among other claims raised by Bigby is his Penry claim that punishment phase jury instructions p

PER CURIAM.* CapetiHo requests a certificate of appealability on several issues. We decline to issue the requested certificate for essentially the reasons stated by the district court in its careful opinion. Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumst

COURT OF APPEALS EIGHTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS EL PASO, TEXAS COCKRELL INVESTMENT § PARTNERS, L.P., § No. 08-21-00200-CV Appellant, § Appeal from the v.

COURT OF APPEALS EIGHTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS EL PASO, TEXAS COCKRELL INVESTMENT § PARTNERS, L.P., § No. 08-21-00200-CV Appellant, § Appeal from the v.

CARL E. STEWART, Circuit Judge: Granville Riddle (“Riddle”) appeals from the district court’s denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (2001). Because we find that the district court did not err, we AFFIRM. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY Riddle was charged with intentionally causing Ronnie Hoo

COURT OF APPEALS EIGHTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS EL PASO, TEXAS COCKRELL INVESTMENT § PARTNERS, L.P., § No. 08-21-00200-CV Appellant, § Appeal from the v.

PER CURIAM: This is an application for certificate of appealability from a judgment of a federal district court refusing to set aside a state conviction of capital murder. I Eugene Alvin Broxton in April 1992 was convicted by a Texas jury in Harris County, Texas, of capital murder and shortly thereafter sentenced to death. The Te

174 F.Supp.2d 512 (2001) Edward BEALL, Petitioner, v. Janie COCKRELL, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division Respondent. No. 3-01-CV-0546-D. United States District Court, N.D. Texas, Dallas Division. October 18, 2001. *513 *514 *515

COURT OF APPEALS EIGHTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS EL PASO, TEXAS MONICA MARIE COCKRELL, § No. 08-24-00096-CV Appellant, § Appeal from the v. § County Court at Law ROY EDWARD COCKRELL,

COURT OF APPEALS EIGHTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS EL PASO, TEXAS COCKRELL INVESTMENT PARTNERS, § L.P., § Appellant, § v. No. 08-21-00200-CV § MIDDLE PECOS GROUNDWATER Appeal

CARL E. STEWART, Circuit Judge, dissenting: I agree with the thrust of Judge De-Moss’s and Judge Dennis’s dissents; however, I write separately in order to clarify my perspective on this difficult case. The facts at issue are adequately set out in the majority opinion and the dissenting opinion by Judge DeMoss. I will not recite them here. The nullification instruction at the core of our re