Joe Rollen Crockett v. O.L. McCotter Director, Texas Department of Corrections

GARWOOD, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner-appellant Joe Rollen Crockett was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1980 by a Texas jury after he pleaded guilty to burglary. Crockett now appeals from the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 in which he challenged his sentence, claiming that he received ineffective assistance of counsel because of his counsel’s failure to object to the introduction of four prior convictions. We affirm the district court’s denial of habeas relief.

Facts and Proceedings Below

On the night of January 12, 1980, Crockett broke…