Henry Martinez Porter v. W.J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections

How courts have described this case

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• federal district courts “do not sit as a super state supreme court on a habeas corpus proceeding to review error under state law”
• federal courts do not sit as super state supreme courts to review error under state law
• “But we reiterate here, there was no harm. Because at the end of the day, the facts did not give rise to a self-defense charge.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).