United States Fifth Circuit

A habeas petitioner's claim of a trial counsel's ineffective assistance was procedurally barred where petitioner did not provide state courts a fair opportunity to apply controlling legal principles to facts bearing upon his constitutional claim.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/07/2003
• Published 04/08/2003

Judges

• EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge:, Before DAVIS, WIENER, and EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael B. Charlton, Houston, TX, Robert Albert Monks, Monks & Vasquez, Galveston, TX, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Margaret L. Schmucker, Austin, TX, for Respondent-Appellee.