Donnie Roberts v. Rick Thaler, Director

KING, Circuit Judge:

Donnie Lee Roberts was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rejected both his direct and postconviction appeals. He then filed for federal habeas relief in the district court. The district court rejected his petition for habeas relief, but granted him a certificate of ap-pealability to pursue three claims arising from his sentencing hearing dealing with, respectively, the restrictions on his expert’s testimony, the alleged ineffective assistance of his trial counsel in failing to object to victim impact testimony, and the…