Charlie Gonzales v. Rick Thaler, Director

PER CURIAM: *

Charlie Julius Gonzales, Texas prisoner # 1194735, was convicted in 2003 of one count of aggravated assault. After the conviction was affirmed on direct appeal and Gonzales was denied state habeas relief, he challenged the conviction in a federal habeas application under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, raising the same claims raised in his state habeas application. The parties consented to proceed before a magistrate judge (MJ), who denied all of Gonzales’s claims and denied a certificate of appeala-bility (COA) for most of his claims. The MJ granted a COA only as to (1) Gonzales’s first,…