Daniel Lee Corwin v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division

How courts have described this case

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• noting that court’s ruling on alternative grounds does not detract from primary holding
• following Ward in declining to apply the fundamental miscarriage standard because petitioner failed to allege actual innocence
• “We are satisfied that § 19.03(a)(7)(B) has such a common-sense core of meaning that juries are able to comprehend.”
• Texas’ - 15 - “contemporaneous objection rule” is strictly and regularly applied to similar claims and is, therefore, an adequate procedural rule
• “It is clear in this Circuit that alternative rulings do not operate to vitiate the validity of a [state] procedural bar that constitutes the [state court’s] primary holding.”

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