Jihaad A.M.E. Saahir v. James A. Collins, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division

EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:

The district court dismissed Jihaad Sa-ahir’s successive federal habeas corpus petition for abuse of the writ. His appeal poses a question left undecided by Woods v. Whitley, 933 F.2d 321, 324 n. 6 (5th Cir.1991): whether pro se habeas petitioners are held to a different standard of “cause” for failing to raise a particular claim in prior petitions than are petitioners represented by counsel. Because McCleskey v. Zant, — U.S. -, 111 S.Ct. 1454, 113 L.Ed.2d 517 (1991), draws no such distinction, and because Saahir has shown neither cause under this standard nor a…