Tommy Ray Jackson v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing the general rule that any impropriety in the State’s argument is waived by a defendant’s failure to assert a timely and proper objection
• concluding habeas claim’s “adjudication was not ‘on the merits’ within the intendment of the AEDPA” even though the “third factor weighs in favor of the conclusion that the state court disposition was on the merits.”
• “When faced with a silent or ambiguous state habeas decision, the federal court should ‘look through’ to the last clear state decision on the matter.”
• “When faced with a silent or ambiguous state habeas decision, the federal court should ‘look through’ to the last clear state decision on the matter.”
• “When faced with a silent or ambiguous state habeas decision, the federal court should ‘look through’ to the last clear state decision on the matter.”
• “When faced with a silent or ambiguous state habeas decision, the federal court should ‘look through’ to the last clear state decision on the matter.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).