AdministrativeLaw DueProcess HabeasCorpus Punishment
Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' unexplained dismissal of claims raised in a subsequent application for writ of habeas corpus violated the most basic due process protection afforded the beneficiary of the state-created right to have claims in a subsequent habeas application considered on the merits?
QUESTIONS PRESENTED Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals’ unexplained dismissal of claims raised in a subsequent application for writ of habeas corpus, where the claims on their face met the statutory criteria to be considered on the merits and there was no reasonable basis for dismissing the claims, violated the most basic due process protection afforded the beneficiary of the statecreated right to have claims in a subsequent habeas application considered on the merits? i