Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Emery v. Johnson

525 U.S. 969

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1998-11-02
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • stating that Article 11.071, Section 5, "precludes a state court from considering the merits of claims presented in a successive habeas application unless predicate facts for a statutory exception are established"
  • second habeas petition is abuse of the writ if the prisoner urges grounds that could have been, but were not, raised in his first habeas petition

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C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied.