Court Opinion

ID: 7016524
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 04:22:46.50293+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:10:24.543628
License: Public Domain

DENNIS, Circuit Judge,
dissenting:
Although I agree with the panel majority that Tennard’s claim under Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304, 122 S.Ct. 2242, 153 L.Ed.2d 335 (2002), is not properly before this court because petitioner did not raise this claim in his district court habeas petition, I continue to dissent from the now restored panel opinion, Tennard v. Cockrell, 284 F.3d 591 (5th Cir.2002), for the reasons given in my dissent there.