Saldano v. Roach 363 F.3d 545 (5th Cir. 2004)
November 18, 2020
The case arose out of a federal habeas corpus challenge by a state prisoner to his death sentence. The prisoner’s race and ethnicity were used to support a finding of future dangerousness during the punishment phase of the trial. The case was eventually appealed to the Supreme Court, at which time the Attorney General assumed…
