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On the basis of proof which included two eyewitness identifications, numerous pieces of circumstantial evidence, and petitioner Herrera's handwritten letter impliedly admitting his guilt, Herrera was convicted of the capital murder of Police Officer Carrisalez and sentenced to death in January 1982.
7 paź 1992 · Herrera filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, claiming actual innocence and alleging that various Valley police officials were involved in the drug trade and were working with the person actually responsible for the murders, Raul Herrera.
Petitioner Herrera was convicted for the murder of two officers. As his execution approached, he produced evidence that he was innocent, and that another was responsible. Synopsis of Rule of Law.
7 paź 1992 · On the basis of proof which included two eyewitness identifications, numerous pieces of circumstantial evidence, and petitioner Herrera's handwritten letter impliedly admitting his guilt, Herrera was convicted of the capital murder of Police Officer Carrisalez and sentenced to death in January 1982.
Leonel Torres Herrera (defendant) was convicted of one murder and pled guilty to another. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the conviction and death sentence, and the United States Supreme Court denied certiorari.
The case involved Leonel Torres Herrera, a death-row inmate in Texas, convicted of the 1981 murder of two state police officers. Herrera had an impoverished childhood, an abusive alcoholic father, and a history of post-traumatic stress disorder following service in Vietnam.
25 sty 1993 · Supreme Court. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. No. 91-7328. LEONEL TORRES HERRERA, PETITIONER v. JAMES A. COLLINS, DIRECTOR, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, INSTITUTIONAL DIVISION. on writ of certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the fifth circuit. [ January 25, 1993]
