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THOMAS v. DAVIS

No. 17-20661.

968 F.3d 352 (2020)

Deshun THOMAS, Petitioner-Appellant v. Lorie DAVIS, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Filed July 29, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles W. Prueter , Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, L.L.P., Birmingham, AL, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Susan Frances San Miguel, Esq. , Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Postconviction Litigation Division, Austin, TX, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before DAVIS, JONES, and ENGELHARDT, Circuit Judges.

This court granted a certificate of appealability on habeas petitioner Deshun Thomas's claim that his trial counsel failed to subject the prosecution's case to meaningful adversarial testing in violation of United States v. Cronic, 466 U.S. 648, 104 S.Ct. 2039, 80 L.Ed.2d 657...

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