Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

A motion for leave to file a writ of mandamus is granted and mandamus relief is conditionally granted where the district clerk violated its duty to accept applications for writ of habeas corpus when it returned defendant's in its original, unopened envelope, marked as "refused" pursuant to a policy of refusing inmate correspondence that had not been inspected for the presence of anthrax.

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• Decided 03/08/2006
• Published 03/08/2006

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• Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

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