Court Opinion

ID: 9461434
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 22:14:33.319033+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:37:03.757951
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RONEY, Circuit Judge
(specially concurring):
I concur in the en banc vacation and remand of the district court’s judgment for reconsideration in the light of Fitzgerald v. Estelle, 505 F.2d 1334 (5th Cir. 1974) (en banc). I do not concur in affirmance of Part II of the panel opinion, West v. Louisiana, 478 F.2d 1026 (5th Cir. 1973), which indicates that the district court may decide this case without an evidentiary hearing. As indicated in my dissent to the panel opinion, 478 F.2d at pp. 1035-1037, I would call for a full development of the facts and at the very least, a review of the state trial record by the district court. I doubt that the district court can give adequate reconsideration to this case under the Fitzgerald principles without an evidentiary hearing. I would not indicate otherwise by affirmance of Part II of the panel opinion. I agree with the en bane majority that Parts I and IV are correct as written in the panel opinion.