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(ORDER LIST: 531 U.S.)

THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 2001

CERTIORARI DENIED

00-7584 GOODWIN, ALVIN U. V. JOHNSON, DIR., TX DOCJ (00A549)

The application for stay of execution of sentence of death

presented to Justice Scalia and by him referred to th e Court

is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.

Justice Stevens, Justice Souter, Justice Ginsburg, and

Justice Breyer would grant the application for stay of execution.