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Thread: Steven Lawayne Nelson - Texas Death Row

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    On October 22, 2015, Nelson filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    https://dockets.justia.com/docket/te...cv00797/265838
    https://dockets.justia.com/docket/te...cv00796/265837

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    On October 2, 2016, Nelson again filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    https://dockets.justia.com/docket/te...cv00904/279907
    https://dockets.justia.com/docket/te...cv00903/279906

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    On March 29, 2017, Nelson's habeas petition was DENIED in Federal District Court.

    https://docs.justia.com/cases/federa...0904/279907/58

    On April 28, 2017, Nelson filed an appeal before the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

    https://dockets.justia.com/docket/ci...s/ca5/17-70012

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    On March 12, 2020, the Fifth Circuit granted a certificate of appealability to Nelson.

    https://law.justia.com/cases/federal...020-03-12.html
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    What BS claim did they fall for this time?
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    Batson claim and ineffective counsel. The tl;dr is that one of his co-conspiritors committed the act of murder and that a jury would have been less likely to sentence him to death had they believed he was merely the lookout. One of the cos was brought before a grand jury but managed to come away with a no-bill.

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    It's also worth noting that granting a COA does not equate to a grant of habeas relief, thus they didn't really fall for anything yet.
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    On May 9, 2022, oral argument will be heard in Nelson's appeal before the Fifth Circuit.

    https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/oral-ar.../Details/1550/

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    Habeas relief denied by the 5th Circuit 6/30/23.

    https://law.justia.com/cases/federal...023-06-30.html
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    The panel was made up of Judge Jones (Reagan), Judge Smith (Reagan) and Senior Judge Dennis (Obama). Senior Judge Dennis dissented.

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