Burdine v. Johnson

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · Decided 2001-08-30

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PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge, joined by KING, Chief Judge, and W. EUGENE DAVIS, and WIENER, Circuit Judges, concurring: I concur fully in the excellent opinion of the Court, but write separately to explain my preferred path. As for the merits of Burdine’s claim, he had no lawyer for not insignificant amounts of time as the government presented its case. This is surely a denial of the constitutional…

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