Opinion ID: 27276
Heading Depth: 5
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: by clear and convincing evidence, but for

Text: a violation of the United States Constitution no rational juror would have answered in the state’s favor one or more of the special issues that were submitted to the jury.... TEX. CRIM. PROC. CODE ANN. art. 11.071, § 5(a) (Vernon Supp. 2002). (Although Van Alstyne can avoid the procedural bar by, for example, showing cause and prejudice for failing in his state habeas application to raise this unexhausted claim, see Jones v. Johnson, 171 F.3d 270, 277 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 527 U.S. 1059 (1999), he makes no attempt to do so.) Van Alstyne fails to satisfy the COA-procedural-standard. 18