(ORDER LIST:  530 U.S.)

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 2000



CERTIORARI DENIED

99-9501 BURKS, JOHN ALBERT V. JOHNSON, DIR., TX DOCJ
(99A995)

	The application for stay of execution of sentence of death
presented to Justice Scalia and by him referred to the Court is
denied.  The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.

	Justice Stevens and Justice Ginsburg would grant the
application for stay of execution.