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David Glen WEEMS, Petitioner-Appellant v. Nathaniel QUARTERMAN, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, Respondent-Appellee.
    No. 07-10552
    Summary Calendar.
    United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
    March 28, 2008.
    David Glen Weems, Dallas, TX, pro se.
    Before HIGGINBOTHAM, STEWART, and ELROD, Circuit Judges.
   PER CURIAM:

David Glen Weems, Texas prisoner #494864, pleaded guilty in 1989 in separate proceedings to burglary of a habitation and to unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and was sentenced to concurrent terms of 15 years in prison. His pleadings indicate that he was released on parole, reincarcerated for a parole violation, released again, and once again imprisoned for violating parole conditions. According to the record, his most recent reincarceration was in 2007. In February 2007, Weems filed a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 application asserting that his imprisonment on parole violations is unconstitutional. The district court dismissed his application as barred by the one-year statute of limitations.

To the extent that Weems challenges the constitutionality of his most recent parole revocation and sentence, which he alleges occurred in 2007, his application would be timely as it was brought within one year of that judgment. Thus, Weems has shown that reasonable jurists would debate whether the dismissal of his application as time-barred was correct. Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484, 120 S.Ct. 1595, 146 L.Ed.2d 542 (2000). In addition, Weems may have a protected liberty interest in street time because, in 2001, the Texas Legislature amended Tex Gov’t Code § 508.283 to provide credit for street time following revocation under certain circumstances unless the inmate was ineligible for mandatory supervision under Tex Gov’t Code Ann. § 508.149(a). The record is insufficiently developed on this issue. Finally, at the time Weems filed his application, he had a state post-conviction application pending, which would have rendered his claims unexhausted. However, the current status of his state application is unclear.

Accordingly, we GRANT Weems’s motion for a COA regarding whether the district court erred in dismissing his challenge to his current incarceration and most recent parole revocation was barred by limitations. We DENY a COA as to any other claims. The judgment of the district court is VACATED and this matter is REMANDED to the district court for further proceedings consistent with this order. We express no opinion on the ultimate outcome of the proceedings. 
      
      Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.