Kavin Wayne Lincecum v. James A. Collins, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division

KING, Circuit Judge:

Kavin Wayne Lincecum, a Texas prisoner under a sentence of death, appeals the dismissal of his petition for a writ of habe-as corpus. Although Lincecum raised 18 claims in the district court, his appeal involves only three issues: (1) whether the state trial court erred in refusing to give his requested instruction on the lesser included offenses of murder and voluntary manslaughter; (2) whether the district court erred in denying his motion for an evidentiary hearing on the claims that (a) his trial counsel rendered constitutionally ineffective assistance and (b) the…