BYRNE

v.

BUTLER, WARDEN

Citator

Cited By

• Smith v. Black, 904 F.2d 950 (5th Cir. 1990)
  …enied, 484 U.S. 873, 108 S.Ct. 210, 98 L.Ed.2d 161 (1987); see also Jones v. Butler, 864 F. 2d 348, 356 (5th Cir.1988), cert. denied, — U.S. —, 109 S.Ct. 2090, 104 L.Ed.2d 653 (1989); Byrne v. Butler, 845 F. 2d 501, 507 (5th Cir.1988), cert. denied, 487 U.S. 1242, 108 S.Ct. 2918, 101 L.Ed.2d 949 (1988). The district court found Smith’s arguments unconvincing on two grounds: first, “[o]nly one aggravating factor was necessary, and it cannot be doubted that the jury would have found the aggravating factor of…
• Wiley v. Puckett, 969 F.2d 86 (5th Cir. 1992)
  …2). This standard applies equally to ineffective assistance of counsel claims. If the record is adequate to dispose of the claim, the federal court need not hold an evidentiary hearing. Byrne v. Butler, 845 F. 2d 501, 512 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 487 U.S. 1242, 108 S.Ct. 2918, 101 L.Ed.2d 949 (1988); see also Paster v. Lynaugh, 876 F. 2d 1184, 1190 (5th Cir.1989), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 110 S.Ct. 272, 107 L.Ed.2d 177 (1990); Baldwin v. Maggio, 704 F. 2d 1325, 1329 (5th Cir.1983), cert. denied, 467 U.S. 1…
• Kavin Wayne Lincecum v. Collins, 958 F.2d 1271 (5th Cir. 1992)
  …yrne v. Butler, 845 F. 2d 501, 513-14 (5th Cir.) (“bold assertions on a critical issue in a habeas petition, unsupported and unsupportable by anything else contained in the record, are insufficient to warrant an evi-dentiary hearing”), cert. denied, 487 U.S. 1242, 108 S.Ct. 2918, 101 L.Ed.2d 949 (1988); see also Joseph, 838 F. 2d at 788; Ross v. Estelle, 694 F. 2d 1008, 1011 (5th Cir.1983) (per curiam). As for the evidence of mental impairment, there is nothing in the record to demonstrate that Kuhn failed…