James Terrell Smith v. James A. Collins, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division

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• concluding that the resentencing of a defendant as a repeat offender after invalidation of his conviction as a habitual offender because one of his prior convictions was found defective does not offend double jeopardy
• declining to review de novo where defendant’s objection “raised no factual objections to the recommendation but merely reurged the legal arguments he raised in his original petition”
• applying harmless error analysis when a plaintiff raises no new factual objections to a magistrate's report but merely reurges the same legal arguments raised in his original complaint
• Loper motivated by unreliability of uncounseled convictions

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