Martinez v. Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, No. 02-40755 (5th Cir.) (292 F.3d 417) (May 21, 2002) (Judge Carolyn Dineen King)
Here the Court rejected a civil rights suit under ยง 1983 charging that Texas courts had engaged in a conspiracy to knowingly and intentionally appointing incompetent counsel - concluding it was an attempt to circumvent the limits on successive petitions.
This case addresses a thorny issue - and one which, ...
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