Case Name: Michael Wayne HALEY, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Doug DRETKE, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, Respondent-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2004-06-25
Citations: 376 F.3d 316
Docket Number: No. 01-41389
Parties: Michael Wayne HALEY, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Doug DRETKE, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, Respondent-Appellant.
Judges: Before DeMOSS, STEWART and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: Federal Reporter 3d Series
Volume: 376
Pages: 316–316

Head Matter:
Michael Wayne HALEY, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Doug DRETKE, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, Respondent-Appellant.
No. 01-41389.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
June 25, 2004.
Eric Miller Albritton, Albritton Law' Firm, Longview, TX, for Petitioner-Appel-lee.
Ellen StewarNKlein, Austin, TX, for Respondent-Appellant.
Before DeMOSS, STEWART and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
CARL E. STEWART, Circuit Judge:
On Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the United States Supreme Court by an Opinion entered May 3, 2004, in - U.S. -, 124 S.Ct. 1847, 1852, - L.Ed.2d - (2004), held that a federal court faced with allegations of actual innocence, whether of the sentence or of the crime charged, must first address all non-defaulted claims of comparable relief and other grounds for cause to excuse the procedural default. Dretke and the State of Texas conceded before the Supreme Court that Haley has a viable and significant ineffective assistance of counsel claim, success on the merits would give respondent all of the relief that he seeks, i.e., re-sentencing, and also would provide cause to excuse the procedural default of his sufficiency of the evidence claim, and that the State will not reincarcerate Haley during the pendency of his ineffective assistance of counsel claim. Accordingly, the judgment of this court, 306 F.3d 257, was vacated, and the case remanded for further proceedings consistent with its opinion. It is hereby ordered that this case be remanded to the district court for further proceedings to expeditiously resolve Haley's claim.