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· 1/3/1983

Leon Ross, Jr. v. W.J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections

Citations

  • 694 F.2d 1008
  • 1983 U.S. App. LEXIS 27904

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • “mere conclusory allegations do not raise a constitutional issue in a habeas proceeding.”
  • mere conclusory allegations do not raise a constitutional issue in a habeas proceeding
  • “Absent evidence in the record, a court cannot consider a habeas petitioner’s bald assertions on a critical issue in his pro se petition [ ], unsupported and unsupportable by anything else contained in the record, to be of probative evidentiary value.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Brown, Rubin, Reav-Ley

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