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· 5/5/1987

Roberto De La Rosa v. James A. Lynaugh, Interim Director, Texas Department of Corrections

Citations

  • 817 F.2d 259
  • 1987 U.S. App. LEXIS 6500

How courts have described this case

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  • treating district court’s holding as a grant of summaty judgment, where “{t}he [plaintiffs] had ample opportunity to bring forth evidence to show that genuine issues of material fact remained”
  • voluntary manslaughter conviction barred relitigation of whether defendant acted with sudden passion

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Judges: Brown, Randall, Higginbotham

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