Mark David Godfrey v. Doug Dretke, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division

JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

In 1998, Mark Godfrey was convicted of burglary of a habitation and was sentenced to fifty years’ imprisonment. His sentence was enhanced by expired convictions from 1982 and 1991 (together, the “expired convictions”). - In December 2000 he filed a state application' for postconviction relief, alleging that the 1998 conviction was erroneously enhanced by the expired convictions. The Texas Court .of Criminal Appeals (“TCCA”) rejected that application. In October 2001 Godfrey filed two more state applications for postconviction relief alleging the same deficiencies…