Ex Parte Webb’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “It has long been the rule that a conviction from which an appeal has been taken is final for the purposes of Article 11.07 when the clerk of the court of appeals issues that court’s mandate.”). For these reasons, capital post-conviction proceedings seem to have taken on the characteristics of a special appeal — albeit one in which resort may be made to evidence beyond the appellate record. All of this leads me to believe that the Legislature intended for our statutory post-conviction ha-beas corpus remedy in Texas death penalty cases to be really a kind of hybrid appeal rather than a true”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ex parte Alvarez

2. “Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, this article establishes the procedures for an application for a writ of habeas corpus in which the applicant seeks relief from a judgment imposing a penalty of death.”); id. § 5(a)(1) (”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ex parte Alvarez

3. “an appellate court's official notice, directed to the court below, advising it of the appellate court's decision and directing it to have the appellate court's judgment duly recognized, obeyed, and executed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ramey v. Davis