Jihaad A.M.E. Saahir v. James A. Collins, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division

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• holding that neither prisoner's pro se status nor ignorance of the law constitutes \cause\ for failing to include a claim in a prior petition
• recognizing that McCleskey does not distinguish between pro se petitioners and those represented by counsel
• holding that neither petitioner's pro se status nor ignorance of the law constitute case for failing to include legal claim in lawsuit
• inmate’s pro se status not an external factor preventing claim in prior habeas petitions
• ignorance of the law is not an objective external impediment
• 28 U.S.C. § 2254 case

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