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Fifth Circuit: “Mailbox Rule” Applies to Texas State Habeas Petitions
Loaded on Sept. 19, 2014
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2014, page 44
Fifth Circuit: “Mailbox Rule” Applies to Texas State Habeas Petitions
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that the “mailbox rule” of Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266 (1988) now applies to determining the date when Texas prisoners file state habeas corpus petitions for the purpose …
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