Pedro Muniz v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “we conclude that when a district court issues a CPC or COA that does not specify the issue or issues warranting review, as required by 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(3
• stating that “we conclude that when a district court issues a CPC or COA that does not specify the issue or issues warranting review, as required by 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(3
• declining to evaluate the issues that may be the subject of a COA when such a determination may be inconsistent with the district court’s assessment of the viability of petitioner’s federal habeas claims
• noting that if we are confronted with a CPC in a case covered by AEDPA’s § 2253(c)(3), we do not remand to the district court for a specification of the issues the CPC/COA covers when only one issue was before that court
• \ A district court must deny the COA before a petitioner can request one from this court.\ (emphasis added)
• \A district court must deny the COA before a petitioner can request one from this court.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).