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Appeal from the United States District Court For the Western District of Texas

A jury in the 207th Judicial District Court for Comal County, Texas, on September 25, 1985, convicted Rodolfo Baiza Hernandez of the capital murder of Victor Cervan. The jury gave affirmative answers to the questions required in Texas at the sentencing phase of the trial, and he was sentenced to death. After direct and collateral review by the state courts of his conviction and sentence, Hernandez brings this appeal from a denial of federal habeas relief by the United States District Court. He urges two points.

First, he urges that he was denied his Sixth Amendment right to counsel because a court-appointed psychiatrist testified at the sentencing phase of this trial regarding his future dangerousness, although the State refused to allow his counsel to be present at the doctor’s examination of Hernandez. Second, he urges that the statutory questions asked the jury in the sentencing phase did not allow the jury to consider in mitigation his evidence that he was abused as a child and suffered chronic paranoid schizophrenia. We find these two contentions to be without merit and affirm dismissal of his federal petition.

 
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